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Re: Ask HN: Please stop writing tutorials/tech articles on Medium

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Aren't the writers consciously choosing to monetize their content?

You’re right. Medium articles are free by default, but authors can choose to join the Medium Partner Program [0] and put one or more of their articles behind the paywall. Then when a paid member reads an article, Medium shares a portion of the revenue from their membership with its author.

[0]: https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/115011694187-Getti...

Re: Ask HN: Please stop writing tutorials/tech articles on Medium

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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 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.

Re: Ask HN: Please stop writing tutorials/tech articles on Medium

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post #22

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…

Pretentiousness?

Re: Ask HN: Please stop writing tutorials/tech articles on Medium

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Please could you stop “demanding” free software, free tutorials, free everything? People put effort and time in writing good tutorials and software. You complain about “free” platforms selling your data, and about paid articles that they are “restricting learning opportunities”. How are they meant to support themselves if they service entitled people like you? You are restricting your own learning opportunities by not rewarding good content and people for their time and effort.

Re: Ask HN: Please stop writing tutorials/tech articles on Medium

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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?

Going back to blogging and not expecting any income for your writing, mostly.

Re: Ask HN: Please stop writing tutorials/tech articles on Medium

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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?

They used to be but they left.

https://hackernoon.com/why-is-hackernoon-com-leaving-medium-...

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