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Aren't the writers consciously choosing to monetize their content?
[0]: https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/115011694187-Getti...
For people simply looking to spread ideas and neat little hacks, it's almost always going to be better using either a 'traditional' blogging platform or homebrewing a blog with one of the static site generators.
There also seems to be some sort of 'style' that every Medium writer starts to take on that you don't see other places, I can't put my finger on it but there's a certain tone to many of the articles.
I agree. Are there any good alternatives (except for personal blogs)?
It's literally right click, 'open in private tab'
I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with Medium as a platform for the space between amateur and professional writing, but I don't think it's right for most techie blogs. For people simply looking to spread ideas and neat little hacks, it's almost always going to be better using either a 'traditional' blogging platform or homebrewing a blog with one of the static site generators. There also seems to be som…
I wholeheartedly agree. Medium is a cancer in the programming tutorial/article front. Unfortunately, any such platform will be in due time be trying to seek income and will transform into such an ad-powered walled garden, whatever the good intentions in the beginning may have been. What could be the solution to this?
Why not hackernoon or any other blogging platform, then? Stackoverflow is gatekept, not super friendly, and you can only share things in response to people's questions.
hackernoon is on Medium, no?
https://hackernoon.com/why-is-hackernoon-com-leaving-medium-...