I have tweeted the same a few days back, I found this very irritating. https://twitter.com/niksmac_/status/1317859294465830912?s=20
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#102But then how does a bootcamp graduate with no experience whatsoever writes and article about some basic shit that takes 5 minutes in the official documentation to grasp can pretend to be a subject matter and get a high paying senior job? /s
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#103Just use https://sugoidesune.github.io/readium - Paywall solved :P
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
I prefer ads, but I'm one of those weirdos that doesn't see a problem with ads, and actually prefers targeted ads.
Same here. Would love to see a targeted ad that makes me buy something new.
If it's a programming tutorial, it seems like the ad doesn't need to be targeted to you specifically, but to programmers in general. I really don't want to see another Zappos ad for some shoes I bought a month ago when reading a React tutorial.
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#105I agree. I use Google for news/article recommendations and I ended up banning medium.
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#106Medium does help with a lot of distribution through internal members. That's really nice when you're trying to get an article to many people quickly but, point taken. We'll be reblogging all our content on a self hosted Jekkyl instance and Substack from now on.
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#107Actually 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.
If anyone reading this does write a tutorial, _please_ put the date on it. Or at least the year.
Or perhaps the software version.
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
Medium has for me become a signal for "likely shallow and low quality".
Whats for you the signal for high quality?
I usually search for documentation or tech problems in a text browser with cookies disabled, no js, no css, using tor and using an empty user agent.
I won't try to guess why, but the few pages I can access are always high quality, while poor quality pages (as discovered when opening the page anyway in a full browser) always try to block that setup.
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#110I 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 thin…
I used to mirror some of my more general interest stuff on Medium. I actually found the formatting pretty nice and figured there was 1.) Some discoverability and 2.) Some people, possibly out of ignorance, associate/associated Medium with more credibility than a random personal blog.
I do use Blogger, so load isn't actually an issue.
Since the paywall became increasingly obtrusive I stopped mirroring and just use my own blog or one of the numerous other publication channels I write for.