Is Medium still the place to publish high-impact articles? • Hacker News Board

Re: Is Medium still the place to publish high-impact articles?

#11

Post by jascwar » Thu, Oct 10, 2019, 5:09 PM UTC

A Better Medium is here.

Take a look at dev community: https://dev.to

DEV Community is a burgeoning source of guidance and discussion on software topics, especially web dev.

A few additional links pertaining to dev.to

Traffic stats: https://www.similarweb.com/website/dev.to Twitter: https://twitter.com/thepracticaldev

Re: Is Medium still the place to publish high-impact articles?

#12

Post by lioeters » Thu, Oct 10, 2019, 5:10 PM UTC

No to all 4 counts: Medium, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter.

For the love of user privacy, choice and respect: please publish on your own site/platform and syndicate to social media.

Re: Is Medium still the place to publish high-impact articles?

#13

Post by billconan » Thu, Oct 10, 2019, 5:24 PM UTC

Bob312371 wrote: post #5

billconan wrote: post #2

May I take this opportunity to recommend Epiphany, a new blogging experience tailored for tech content? https://epiphany.pub/post?refId=2684bc94f9fcb9ffe637ebfbeba2... Epiphany is a crossover of Jupyter notebook and Medium.com, Not only can you write text, you can also program on it, to create interactive examples, see: https://epiphany.pub/post?refId=4c411b8a0b5207739f97e787d2af... In addition to interactivity, Epip…

Nice project. Until you implement server side rendering you will have a difficult time getting this project off the ground. Having your article indexable by search engines is critical for 99.9% percent of people that use these sort of mediums.

that's good feedback. It's a bit difficult, because for security reasons, the dynamic content is rendered within an iframe. But I did do some tricks to let google find the content: https://www.google.com/search?safe=off&sxsrf=ACYBGNQ_Qfod-qU...

But there is certainly room to improve.

Re: Is Medium still the place to publish high-impact articles?

#14

Post by stuqqq » Thu, Oct 10, 2019, 5:32 PM UTC

jascwar wrote: post #11

A Better Medium is here. Take a look at dev community: https://dev.to DEV Community is a burgeoning source of guidance and discussion on software topics, especially web dev. A few additional links pertaining to dev.to Traffic stats: https://www.similarweb.com/website/dev.to Twitter: https://twitter.com/thepracticaldev

I can’t understand dev.to ‘s aesthetic taste. It’s only a bit better than Craigslist.

Re: Is Medium still the place to publish high-impact articles?

#15

Post by mastar2323 » Thu, Oct 10, 2019, 5:46 PM UTC

dilippkumar wrote: post #7

I installed NetNewsWire 5.0[0] when it was launched and subscribed to a bunch of RSS feeds. In my opinion, a native desktop application that downloads content for offline consumption, without CSS, javascript, advertisements, trackers and GDPR pop-ups has led to an incredible experience! If you publish to your own blog, social media will not be able to censor you. You won’t be required to conform to “community guideli…

I totally agree. Unfortunately I'm still using feedly as my aggregator and reeder for reading. On the one side it’s super comfortable to sync my devices but on the other side you share your reading list with them.

What are your top three RSS feed recommendations?

Re: Is Medium still the place to publish high-impact articles?

#16

Post by ptcampbell » Thu, Oct 10, 2019, 6:03 PM UTC

When Medium launched it provided an elegantly focused compose / reading experience which was unique at the time. As it’s gained traction I think creators mostly want to leverage the audience and social aspect. But I have despaired as every tech brand has latched on to it as their PR channel, and as tech bloggers place their dime-a-dozen tutorials and hot-takes behind a paywall.

Re: Is Medium still the place to publish high-impact articles?

#17

Post by pnw_hazor » Thu, Oct 10, 2019, 7:01 PM UTC

no. I blocked medium after one too many jarring ad or UI experiences.

edit-to-add: I deleted my linked-in and facebook accounts too. HN is where I find leads to most good stuff now.

Re: Is Medium still the place to publish high-impact articles?

#18

Post by ciupicri » Thu, Oct 10, 2019, 7:31 PM UTC

GitHub Pages [1][2] and Bitbucket Pages [3][4] are way better options for hosting articles.

[1]: https://pages.github.com/

[2]: https://help.github.com/en/articles/about-github-pages

[3]: https://pages.bitbucket.io/

[4]: https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/publishing-a-webs...

Re: Is Medium still the place to publish high-impact articles?

#19

Post by jarvelov » Thu, Oct 10, 2019, 7:49 PM UTC

buboard wrote: post #8

noooo... this is what you see on mobile: https://i.redd.it/ao5outqo0es21.png Please use Blogger! if anything, for historic reasons

That is almost hilarious would it not be for real. Out of curiosity may I ask what device you are using?

Re: Is Medium still the place to publish high-impact articles?

#20

Post by li4ick » Thu, Oct 10, 2019, 9:16 PM UTC

jarvelov wrote: post #19

buboard wrote: post #8

noooo... this is what you see on mobile: https://i.redd.it/ao5outqo0es21.png Please use Blogger! if anything, for historic reasons

That is almost hilarious would it not be for real. Out of curiosity may I ask what device you are using?

Probably iPhone 7/8 by the looks of it.