Earlier quoted context omitted.
Medium has for me become a signal for "likely shallow and low quality".
Whats for you the signal for high quality?
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Ask HN: Please stop writing tutorials/tech articles on Medium
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Re: Ask HN: Please stop writing tutorials/tech articles on Medium
#82For 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.
You can just block cookies from medium.com and everything keeps working.
Re: Ask HN: Please stop writing tutorials/tech articles on Medium
#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
Medium has for me become a signal for "likely shallow and low quality".
Whats for you the signal for high quality?
Sharing experts knowledge, not copying stackoverflow answer adding sentence from official docs and one screen long picture on top of the post.
Usually you can find the signal in the first 2 or 3 sentences of in any post.
Medium.com has better SEO than SO and small personal blogs, so it's winning when searching for a solution.
Re: Ask HN: Please stop writing tutorials/tech articles on Medium
#84well, I was not going to say anything, but I think this applies to every other type of post.
Lately every third link I click there's this HUGE div blocking the content and I need to pay or sign in to read.
It's very frustrating and I leave immediately.
Re: Ask HN: Please stop writing tutorials/tech articles on Medium
#85Oh, for a moment I thought you were arguing people to stop writing those notoriously low-effort, beginner level tutorials which Medium is filled with.
I guess I'll have to do it myself: dear beginners! We don't need your (n+1)-th "how to do [basic thing] in React" tutorials. Please stop polluting our search results.
Re: Ask HN: Please stop writing tutorials/tech articles on Medium
#86AFAIK This is happening due to people enrolling in the partner network to get paid per view. https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/115011694187-Getti...
Re: Ask HN: Please stop writing tutorials/tech articles on Medium
#87Re: Ask HN: Please stop writing tutorials/tech articles on Medium
#88I write everything initially on my own site[0].
I will often (but not always) mirror the article on Medium[1].
I'll often post links, here, to the Medium articles, because I have had my site get the "hug of death" a few times.
In the old days, that was cool (The term "slashdotted" came from that). These days, it doesn't really mean much; except that the server goes down. I don't get any real advantage from it.
I think Medium kind of butchers my work. I have full control of presentation, and whatnot, on my site, and I can do series. There are always links to my original articles, because I don't really trust Medium. I could see them try to claim ownership of my work; simply because it's on their server.
As for people applying value judgements on me for using Medium? Eh. Whatever.
Re: Ask HN: Please stop writing tutorials/tech articles on Medium
#89What I always wondered about is why the (good) people that publish free content on Medium actually publish on Medium.
I mean, talking of technical article/tutorials, it is not like nowadays (and in the last - say - 10 years) there are not other ways (personal site/blog or if the issue is expected huge traffic other free hosting sites, like - still say - github).
What is the perceived "added value" by Medium (in case of free content)?
Better visibility?
Re: Ask HN: Please stop writing tutorials/tech articles on Medium
#90For 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…
Would you prefer ads or paying writers through Medium?
Medium doesn't actually pay writers does it?