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As the author mentions, Medium seems best for the regular casual blogger. Bloggers with large followings are probably better served keeping their following and all the comments on their own turf.
I am always surprised how quickly individuals will give up control over their own content.
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I like your comment, and your last name. I have an Uncle named Jim. This isn't him, is it? That would be quite the coincidence. --- I think the next best blogging platform will be one that does what WordPress used to do. I have my eyes on Ghost, which claims to be a minimalistic blogging system that you have full control over. It's interesting you mention a linking service. I am actually working somewhat of a linking…
Ghost was a good idea but seems to be dead. Last post I can find is from last year. It's design inspired my own service however which was a nice silver lining.
There's no sense of identity. How often do people read articles by the same author on Medium? How often do people remember who wrote an article?
I get the feeling that a lot of people on this site dislike Medium, either consciously or unconsciously. I think part of it is the fact that it separates content from its creators; I think part of it is that it sprung up the same time as Svbtle, and grew conspicuously ubiquitous whereas Svbtle has remained pretty confined to the tech sphere. The underlying value proposition by any sort of blogging engine (Posthaven,…
I just simply wonder why so many medium articles have made their way to the front page for an extended period of time. Some good, some, eh, but propensity of solo-source gets old.
Many articles on Medium have all external links shortened to bit.ly URLs. Is that an option in the publishing interface? I find it extremely annoying, you can track outbound links using javascript without hiding the actual url.
The last time I checked, that wasn't an option. And now that you mentioned it, I might start to do it, too (sorry). I'm not sure how you can track links via javascript, but I do know how to make a bit.ly link.
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The last time I checked, that wasn't an option. And now that you mentioned it, I might start to do it, too (sorry). I'm not sure how you can track links via javascript, but I do know how to make a bit.ly link.
You can theoretically set up Google Analytics to follow outbound links. https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1136920?hl=en
I came here to change the world. And I feel like all I see are nerds blowing each other about The next minimalist uber for twitter.
Many articles on Medium have all external links shortened to bit.ly URLs. Is that an option in the publishing interface? I find it extremely annoying, you can track outbound links using javascript without hiding the actual url.
The last time I checked, that wasn't an option. And now that you mentioned it, I might start to do it, too (sorry). I'm not sure how you can track links via javascript, but I do know how to make a bit.ly link.
Now I'm very depressed with Medium. It's filling with trite, immature rants that keep polluting my otherwise quality feed of opinions. I no longer click the links and definitely won't be chancing upon the rare quality material.
The same thing happened to Quora, sadly.
I get the feeling that a lot of people on this site dislike Medium, either consciously or unconsciously. I think part of it is the fact that it separates content from its creators; I think part of it is that it sprung up the same time as Svbtle, and grew conspicuously ubiquitous whereas Svbtle has remained pretty confined to the tech sphere. The underlying value proposition by any sort of blogging engine (Posthaven,…
I just simply wonder why so many medium articles have made their way to the front page for an extended period of time. Some good, some, eh, but propensity of solo-source gets old.
EDIT: I should have said, this is only the last 100 posts!
EDIT: increasing the number gives a bad request error. :-/
urllib2.HTTPError: HTTP Error 400: Bad Request
File "C:\Python27\lib\urllib2.py", line 527, in http_error_default raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)