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I like medium. When I see a link to medium on hacker news or ddg, etc, I know right away that it's low quality garbage and I should skip over it. They're like a big smelly dump, that helps to keep the rest of the internet clean.
Nah. I prefer regular blogs.
I like medium. When I see a link to medium on hacker news or ddg, etc, I know right away that it's low quality garbage and I should skip over it. They're like a big smelly dump, that helps to keep the rest of the internet clean.
Why is this on us (I'm Medium's CEO)? We have control over our own recommendations, and they have gotten a lot better. But people seem to take the worst articles, post them over here, and the people here upvote them. That seems like a problem with HN.
I think the problem with medium is that there are a lot of low-quality no use for anything articles on the platform. May be you can do some sort of moderation to ensure good articles are present, not sure if it’s against your policies.
Also, another reason which annoys me is the signin to read the article. Why do I have to sign in to read an article everytime? I think this trend overtime created a reflux such that every time I see a medium link, I do not click it.
Loved the platform earlier, I hope you turn it around!
Now though? It's a goddamn trainwreck, with an obnoxious UI filled with modals and that irritating paywall (which you need to leave enabled to make use of most of the article promotion features) and low quality content galore. Indeed, something like 90% of the content there now seems to be hustle culture/growth hacking/self help bullshit or other such vapid junk.
But I guess that's the way of every platform. It starts out with interesting, intelligently written content, then eventually gets buried under the flood of auto generated, SEO focused hustle junk.
I like medium. When I see a link to medium on hacker news or ddg, etc, I know right away that it's low quality garbage and I should skip over it. They're like a big smelly dump, that helps to keep the rest of the internet clean.
Why is this on us (I'm Medium's CEO)? We have control over our own recommendations, and they have gotten a lot better. But people seem to take the worst articles, post them over here, and the people here upvote them. That seems like a problem with HN.
I like medium. When I see a link to medium on hacker news or ddg, etc, I know right away that it's low quality garbage and I should skip over it. They're like a big smelly dump, that helps to keep the rest of the internet clean.
Why is this on us (I'm Medium's CEO)? We have control over our own recommendations, and they have gotten a lot better. But people seem to take the worst articles, post them over here, and the people here upvote them. That seems like a problem with HN.
I think part of it is how aggressive the monetization is. That isn't to say that your competitors, and a huge swathe of publishers aren't doing the same thing. It seems the value prop is getting rid of all the noise. That can be a difficult sell. Publishing is in a weird place. For writing about current events or topics in the zeitgeist, the internet is flooded with articles re-tracing the same points.
I think the other part is that a similar problem that every platform that allows its user to monetize UGC, it attracts large numbers of people who want to game the system (or well meaning people who still exhibit spammy behavior). So those people upload poor articles and share them to as many places as they can to try to capture some ad rev. They end up flooding somewhere like HN, and people sour on the platform instead of the person who uploaded it.
I don't think that is unique to medium, or even unusual in the publishing space. It seems more likely that Medium is big platform, so people see it more often, and more often associate it with these problems.
I like medium. When I see a link to medium on hacker news or ddg, etc, I know right away that it's low quality garbage and I should skip over it. They're like a big smelly dump, that helps to keep the rest of the internet clean.
Why is this on us (I'm Medium's CEO)? We have control over our own recommendations, and they have gotten a lot better. But people seem to take the worst articles, post them over here, and the people here upvote them. That seems like a problem with HN.
So it is on you because you are the one who needs the brand to be viewed positively.
Specifically, it is on you to put on a product hat, come understand what we feel, why we feel it, and what might make us more interested in your product. Or not. Your company, your choice.