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If you want to sell your tutorial for a few dollars, actually sell it for a few dollars and don't force me to play subscription games with Medium.
How do you get the reach? Reach is worth something.
Are you really trying to make the case that Medium is the only way people find and read content?
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Usually if you save to Pocket it will open fine.
Suggesting a workaround is not addressing the root cause. Please don't.
Seems to be hitting some nerves.
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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.
The ads are fine.
Surveillance capitalism is the problem.
Don't mistake the symptom for the disease.
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Considering the author you have to wonder.
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How do you get the reach? Reach is worth something.
Twitter? Reddit? Hacker News? Are you really trying to make the case that Medium is the only way people find and read content?
Now, if it ripped the authors off or engaged in other shitty tactics, then that's one thing. But nobody is responding with that kind of information. It's all a response against the paywalls, and I'm trying to figure out if it's knee-jerk or not.
I mean, aren't people allowed to make a living by teaching others?
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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.
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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, but I'm one of those weirdos that doesn't see a problem with ads, and actually prefers targeted ads. The ads are fine. Surveillance capitalism is the problem. Don't mistake the symptom for the disease.
Most internet "content", including Medium articles, are definitely not worth money. Even worse, there seems to be a massive increase in "articles" coming from a particular part of the world that has churned out masses of sort-of-developers. I'm even starting to wonder if part of their pedagogical process includes "Every week you write an article". Perhaps by sheer number of posts, an individual has been trained to be…
How come you know so much about them? Do you often find yourself digging through medium articles?
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…
Right and how do you get people to read your blog? Ads? Billboards? No one will find a new blog with no Google juice. I used to get 300K a year but it took more than a decade to get to that level. I gave up on it (job burned me out). Now I get 100 readers a month. If I start up again, it will take years to get a decent readership (never did ads). At least with Medium someone would see it.
I post maybe once a month tops, and for very specific niche queries I'm on the first page of results for the three main search engines. The goal for me isn't to make money or get famous, just to fill in some gaps where nobody's tried something before.
I'm not a medium expert at all, but I would wager that most incoming traffic is going to be from google searches either way. The sad reality is that search & social is the only place traffic really comes from, practically nobody uses RSS or subscriptions anymore.