I find most Medium tech articles to be written poorly or outdated or written by juniors. They seem to be written by people that want to write an article just to write and article.
Medium has for me become a signal for "likely shallow and low quality".
Ask HN: Please stop writing tutorials/tech articles on Medium
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#72Why 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.
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#73Re: Ask HN: Please stop writing tutorials/tech articles on Medium
#74I blocked medium results in my DDG settings.
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#75For the past ~3 weeks Medium has blocked virtually every article I wanted to read and is asking me to pay. Most of these are programming tutorials related to some obscure Rails features. Honestly, I feel like Medium is the worse place to put your content. EDIT: For context, I don’t mind people monetizing their content, but in that case I’d rather pay them directly (like GoRails), and not a “subscription” for somethin…
Incognito mode works for me.
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
Would you prefer ads or paying writers through Medium?
Most programming tutorials are effectively ads for the author. "Want to get hired? Write a programming blog" is advice I've received many times.
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#77Re: Ask HN: Please stop writing tutorials/tech articles on Medium
#78I find most Medium tech articles to be written poorly or outdated or written by juniors. They seem to be written by people that want to write an article just to write and article.
This is becoming a problem Internet-wide. Too many people are more interested in becoming Internet Famous than becoming actually good programmers/engineers/etc...
Re: Ask HN: Please stop writing tutorials/tech articles on Medium
#79For the past ~3 weeks Medium has blocked virtually every article I wanted to read and is asking me to pay. Most of these are programming tutorials related to some obscure Rails features. Honestly, I feel like Medium is the worse place to put your content. EDIT: For context, I don’t mind people monetizing their content, but in that case I’d rather pay them directly (like GoRails), and not a “subscription” for somethin…
Usually if you save to Pocket it will open fine.
Re: Ask HN: Please stop writing tutorials/tech articles on Medium
#80Actually can we stop writing tutorials period. When you search for something I always get a bunch of old tutorials by people who are learning something and writing as they learn. If the official docs aren't great, contribute to them.