I think Medium is great. I pitched an article to an online magazine, about UBI. They said they ran one too recently, so I figured I'd self publish. I could have put it on my site, read by zero people, but I figured a medium.com URL would get farther wherever I submitted it. I was right, but not only that, the Medium twitter account tweeted my article, and Medium asked if they could edit it and make an audio version.…
I'd love to read your article about UBI - what's the link?
Why Medium Sucks
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#102I know SEO and visibility is high on Medium. I'm still a bit amazed that so many people, many of them who aren't short on visibility, chose to host their content on that site. Most of it i would have rather read on someone's personal site as IMO that adds a lot of character and context.
Hosting content there is okay as long as you put your own domain on it. The migrating away from it won't cause too much problem if some trouble rises.
The custom domain feature doesn't exist anymore.
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#103Medium peaked a couple years ago, with many startups leveraging the audience and using it as a blog. I suppose their pivot into aggressive growth + monetization has lost them some really important publications. Arguably, hackernoon and freecodecamp were some of the most popular publications. By removing the 'free' aspect of the content, medium effectively put itself in the same bucket as other platforms. I also don't…
I think a lot of people fantasise about a better, more open Medium, and I'm surprised it doesn't exist.
Github does a fantastic job of hosting code and keeping people happy (generally). It's generous to individuals and has a good business model. It would be great to have a place to host my content which is as friendly as github.
I think cloning Medium wouldn't be horribly difficult. It might even be a good medium (hue hue) term project for a solo dev. Perhaps I'm grossly underestimating the work; perhaps it already exists; or perhaps I've just found something to keep me busy over the summer!
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#104I'ts all the white space. Too much form over function surprisingly gets in the way.
I really like the whitespace. Very Donald Knuth.
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#105So I have been putting together a way for people to more easily make their own blogging platform. It would kind of mimic a blog or social media platform, but since everything is committed to a repository using the JAMstack it could easily be converted to a full website or in your case you could simply delete the repository or any number of your posts because they are just files in your repository. Any feedback would be wonderful. https://your-media.netlify.com/post/make-your-own-media/ Everything is owned by the end user. This is only providing a recipe for people to use. I will also mention that https://www.stackbit.com/ is doing basically the same thing but more from a “Make life easier for Website designers” perspective.
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#106I feel like we are beating a dead horse here. Everyone I talk to knows Medium sucks. I personally hate the modal that comes up every time if I'm not logged in and how much of my screen is take up by fixed bars. Medium has a community though. Facebook sucks, but it has a community. Twitter sucks, but it has a community. You are going to get more people to see your post if you put it on Medium. You are going to get mor…
Yeah this feels like second wave hate where people post about it for the clicks
All the comments are the same too
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#107I honestly haven't read more than three articles since most of their content went behind a paywall when I used to read one or two a day.
I wasn't aware that the publisher got to choose if they wanted to put up a paywall or not.
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#108I don't want to violate the Prime Directive, but quoting from $that_site: "The idea that someone could just rent space in a colocation facility, install a web server, and start posting information onto the internet is, sadly, one hundred percent impossible, and can never happen."
So we have to go to Medium to publish. Not even Wordpress.com. (gasps) Blogspot!
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#109This is why I am a big fan of POSSE[0] which is an abbreviation for Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere, a content publishing model that starts with posting content on your own domain first, then syndicating out copies to 3rd party services with permashortlinks back to the original on your site. [0] https://indieweb.org/POSSE Also worth reading: https://medium.com/@joe_wegner/why-i-dont-write-for-medium-c…
So like RSS?
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#110I have a votum separatum.
I think it is lovely that Medium charges people directly, instead of:
- selling data
- spamming with adverts
What else do you expect? (I'm flabbergasted that most people prefer shady ways to get revenue... and then criticize it as well. Even here. Let's PAY for social networks and services. And let's finally acknowledge that the "free" model is more than often tricky/shady or at least - not sustainable.)