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Re: On Medium

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Post by rokhayakebe »

abdophoto wrote: post #18

I'm the co-founder of The Tech Block http://thetechblock.com and we sort of built something similar to Medium (before Medium existed) except it's focused on Technology and we pick and choose the pieces that go on our site. Though it has similarities, the big difference is that our site is not a place where you'd actually type out your article. Instead, if it's housed on your site already, you can choose to cross publ…

Love the look. Two things: 1) The author info gets in the way on the left, making it harder to read (remember we reading in F), 2) Those outgoing links, I would rather have you guys grab the content and reformatted nicely within the site for a unified experience.

Re: On Medium

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Post by lmm »

Cherian wrote: post #33

Sometime back someone invited me to Medium and I am yet to try this out. I am still confused by to why I should try it out. Some questions I have: My domain (website) represents an exercise in credibility, branding and personality [1]. Why should I move to Medium? Some people who write on Medium tell me the sheer number of views they get encourages them to write. Some have mentioned around 20K views in 3-4 hours. But…

>My domain (website) represents an exercise in credibility, branding and personality [1]. Why should I move to Medium?

If you care about that kind of thing and are good at it you probably shouldn't. Medium maintains its own credible brand, which is a godsend for someone who just wants to write, and not worry about design, branding or personality.

>Some people who write on Medium tell me the sheer number of views they get encourages them to write. Some have mentioned around 20K views in 3-4 hours. But this is a factor of “Editors pick” which will soon hit flooding issues and the rich gets richer issues in the front page. Can they ensure continuous coverage at this level ?

Of course they can't ensure anything. But you have xx potential readers (in a more immediate fashion than the way you have 1 million potential readers for anything you put on the web). For some people that helps.

>Some time from now they’ll have to make money. They’ll charge you, run ads or sell to another company. This might not be in sync with your ideology. I pay $6 on prgrmr. Cheap enough. Is this acceptable to you?

I have my own copies of everything I write. If medium brings in changes a year from now and I have to move somewhere different, it's no big. That it might go away at some time is no reason not to enjoy its benefits now.

>I agree maintaining a domain is more hard work than writing on medium but the feeling of “I own it” is incredible. Don’t you feel the same?

Nope. I want to write, and to be read, but I'd be happy to do so anonymously. It's not something I do to build up my personal brand or anything like that.

Re: On Medium

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Post by rokhayakebe »

bpatrianakos wrote: post #19
raymondduke wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You may just have something different and great with the "private writing." Seriously does anyone care 1 million people read them, or a select 100, maybe even a select 10 then you can have a meaningful discussion with those. Private writing sounds more innovative to me then Medium, Sbvtle, and the likes.

Re: On Medium

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Post by kristianp »

I can't see any mention here, but does Medium pay their authors for the content? Or is the pertinent question, how well does it pay compared to other article sites?

Re: On Medium

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Post by probably_wrong »

dclowd9901 wrote: post #27

More bullshit SV circle jerking. I wonder if anyone's working on how to make public schools better, or a way to keep politicians more accountable, or a way to help close the wage gap, or... 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.

> I came here to change the world.

Genuinely interested: what do you mean by "here"? HN, programming, life?

Re: On Medium

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Post by workhere-io »

One thing I dislike about Medium is the fact that selecting text displays a Twitter/conversation thingy. A lot of people, myself included, have a habit of selecting portions of text when we read. Having that Twitter thing show up constantly while reading is annoying.

Re: On Medium

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Post by StavrosK »

Cherian wrote: post #33

Sometime back someone invited me to Medium and I am yet to try this out. I am still confused by to why I should try it out. Some questions I have: My domain (website) represents an exercise in credibility, branding and personality [1]. Why should I move to Medium? Some people who write on Medium tell me the sheer number of views they get encourages them to write. Some have mentioned around 20K views in 3-4 hours. But…

This is completely off topic, but where did this "I am yet" nonsense spawn from? It's completely wrong, since you don't say "I amn't seen it yet", you say "I haven't seen it yet", therefore "I have yet to see it".

Is it one of those things that people get wrong to sound more educated, like overusing "whom"?

Re: On Medium

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Post by DanBC »

minimaxir wrote: post #34
DanBC wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just for fun, here's a chart showing who submits Medium to HN ( http://imgur.com/pDIyeRM ) 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)

Fixed graph here, containing the top 20 posters by number of posts, for 1000/1315 links containing the medium.com domain. (Using R; sorry about the labels) http://i.imgur.com/WIJ4cT9.png ...wow, 1,000 submissions for a less-than 1 year startup is crazy. NB: If you want to get more than 100, you need to use the start=0,100,200... parameter which works up to a maximum of 900 with limit=100.

That's excellent, thank you!

Re: On Medium

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Post by brianmcc »

StavrosK wrote: post #47
Cherian wrote: post #33

Sometime back someone invited me to Medium and I am yet to try this out. I am still confused by to why I should try it out. Some questions I have: My domain (website) represents an exercise in credibility, branding and personality [1]. Why should I move to Medium? Some people who write on Medium tell me the sheer number of views they get encourages them to write. Some have mentioned around 20K views in 3-4 hours. But…

This is completely off topic, but where did this "I am yet" nonsense spawn from? It's completely wrong, since you don't say "I amn't seen it yet", you say "I haven't seen it yet", therefore "I have yet to see it". Is it one of those things that people get wrong to sound more educated, like overusing "whom"?

Interesting question - having always used the expression "I'm yet to do XXX" I didn't even realise how odd it might look to those unfamiliar with it. It's pretty standard English IMO, certain nothing I'd consider affectatious the way the use of whom absolutely can be.

Some discussion here:

http://www.englishforums.com/English/Versus/djxxm/post.htm

including

"I am yet to..." and "I have yet to..." express exactly the same sentiment. The use of "am" in this context is a throwback to the now obsolete use of "to be" as the auxiliary verb in the present perfect conjugation of certain verbs. Eg, I am come. Languages such as German and French continue to use both "to be" and "to have" as auxiliary verbs. "I have come" translates in German to "ich bin gekommen" and in French to "je suis venu".

Re: On Medium

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Post by brown9-2 »

probably_wrong wrote: post #11
jmduke wrote: post #6

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 get the feeling that a lot of people on this site dislike Medium, either consciously or unconsciously. I dislike Medium consciously, but not for the reasons you present. I dislike the site because I don't think its prominence here in HN was progressive, but rather very sudden (one month it was nothing special, and the next one it was always on the main page). That tells me that either Medium is the website to end…

I think you see a sudden surge in submissions because there was a surge in Medium handing out invites and thus more people having access to publish on Medium.
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