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Any article there does not deserve to be read. You are not missing anything
That's not fair. Medium's content is community contributed. There's a lot of value in there. Let's not throw the baby with the water.
Come on, it's Google. They would have killed it someday anyway. Had it lived longer, there would only be more angry users that wouldn't have got their data out.
The whole "influencer" phenomenon (originating in the Chinese KOL - Key Opinion Leaders - phenomenon) is specifically engineered to be a unidirectional mechanism.
In fact, Snapchat tried to do the same with "Discover", which ended up in Google Plus territory. It was not very usable.
I wrote about this a while ago and submitted it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19515513
Come on, it's Google. They would have killed it someday anyway. Had it lived longer, there would only be more angry users that wouldn't have got their data out.
Will they kill Gmail or YouTube in the future as well in your opinion?
No business plan, no vision, lack of leadership, tried to copy Twitter and Facebook. Even Yahoo 360 was better.
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That's not fair. Medium's content is community contributed. There's a lot of value in there. Let's not throw the baby with the water.
if the author cares so little about their readers that they choose to distribute their content on medium, there's a good chance that content isn't worth reading.
>Project Hancock was the internal code name of the project designed to do this. It was going to set up a Google Plus account for every Google user. This is actually much more complicated than it sounds; it took a team of engineers somewhere around three months to accomplish it. What this bit glosses over is the PR disaster that was Google forcing Google+ down the throats of its unwilling users. For example, for years…
I am sorry for the off topic comment but I can't even read this article because medium now shows me a "Sign up for an extra read" popup without any way of closing it. Medium is going so down the tubes, it's become impossible for me to read anything there. Does anyone have a way to bypass the sign up pop up?