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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
#92Why 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.
> and you can only share things in response to people's questions It is ok to ask and answer your own question.
That's true. Though, I'll also say that my experience and expectation from medium articles and SO are different too. Medium lends itself to more end-to-end stories (here are the steps, combining these 3 libraries, to accomplish this task), whereas SO feels like it's more focused (Why does this part of my toolchain break?). The upvote/downvote mechanism also doesn't really lend itself to tutorials. I feel like if you wanted tutorials on SO, you'd want to branch SO itself into a different entity.
Re: Ask HN: Please stop writing tutorials/tech articles on Medium
#93I find most Medium tech articles to be written poorly or outdated or written by juniors.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...
Just this morning I was thinking of making a search engine that only looks among personal blogs plus a whitelist of sites like stackoverflow and Wikipedia. Or something like the old web in general. Or it has to be non profit (no ads, no subscription options, no paid content, only donation/flattr if anything). I haven't decided on a good rule yet, it's quite tricky.
At any rate, the idea is to somehow filter out all the garbage when I just want to know how to do something. Too often I have to find personal blog links on stackoverflow ("PS. I wrote more about it here") as opposed to that helpful article simply showing up in the search results by itself.
Re: Ask HN: Please stop writing tutorials/tech articles on Medium
#94Writing on your own domain and blog, and then re-publishing on places like Medium and dev.to etc seems to be the best combination.
You get the ownership of your own site, and the reach and SEO of medium and 3rd party publications.
Re: Ask HN: Please stop writing tutorials/tech articles on Medium
#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
Medium has for me become a signal for "likely shallow and low quality".
Whats for you the signal for high quality?
A book usually signals a quality higher than Medium signals.
Given the nature of the medium, books usually have the highest guarantee of quality due to the resources used to publish a book.
Re: Ask HN: Please stop writing tutorials/tech articles on Medium
#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
Does that mean that anyone who publishes something on Medium can potentially get paid for it? I'm not familiar with the workings of Medium, aside from the fact that there's a limit on the number of articles one can read for free each month.
I don't use Medium, but according to https://about.medium.com/creators/ > You’ll be able to get paid for all of your writing, some of it, or keep everything free and accessible to all. The choice is yours. So it looks like the authors are the ones responsible for putting up the paywall.
Medium still requires an account to read after a few free articles a month and that's what's pissing most people off. Myself included. This has nothing to do with the monetization of the articles, it's just medium and their arbitrary limit.
Re: Ask HN: Please stop writing tutorials/tech articles on Medium
#97For 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…
https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
works like a charm
Re: Ask HN: Please stop writing tutorials/tech articles on Medium
#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
Would you prefer ads or paying writers through Medium?
Could you walk me through your market value estimate for a quick writeup of an obscure Rails feature?
The value is the intersection of what some people are willing to pay and what the author is welling to accept.
Re: Ask HN: Please stop writing tutorials/tech articles on Medium
#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
Would you prefer ads or paying writers through Medium?
I prefer ads, but I'm one of those weirdos that doesn't see a problem with ads, and actually prefers targeted ads.
I prefer ads because, if they're a typical tracker disguised as an ad, I can block them without feeling even a tinge of guilt.
A few weeks ago I saw an ad on a blog post. I think it's the only one I've seen all year. I was so surprised, I looked at the source. It was just an image, hosted on the same domain, wrapped in standard anchor tag. It was even something I might consider using, a server monitoring service. I had never been so happy to see an ad.
Re: Ask HN: Please stop writing tutorials/tech articles on Medium
#100I 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.
Someone told me that "It's called Medium because the articles are neither rare, nor well-done."
That seems accurate in my experience.