Why I’d rather write in Medium than my personal blog
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Re: Why I’d rather write in Medium than my personal blog
#2This is going to give me an aneurysm. For the love of freedom, people, please own your content online – host it on your own domain.
Re: Why I’d rather write in Medium than my personal blog
#3This is going to give me an aneurysm. For the love of freedom, people, please own your content online – host it on your own domain.
I used to think the same way. But, propagation of your content is a lot more important than just feeling good that it's hosted on your own blog.
Re: Why I’d rather write in Medium than my personal blog
#4Eh, use a static site generator in tandem with something like s3+cloudfront and you can have a lightning fast and practically infinitely scalable personal site for pennies a month.
My site's not particularly complex, but it comes out ahead speed wise on pingdom when compared to medium.
Re: Why I’d rather write in Medium than my personal blog
#5Note that the content you put on Medium is not viewable in Opera Mini on Android, Symbian and J2ME dumbphones.
Re: Why I’d rather write in Medium than my personal blog
#6Eh, use a static site generator in tandem with something like s3+cloudfront and you can have a lightning fast and practically infinitely scalable personal site for pennies a month. My site's not particularly complex, but it comes out ahead speed wise on pingdom when compared to medium. http://i.imgur.com/O2xVK7t.jpg
Possible true, but that's a tad too technical for me. I just want to focus on the writing.
Re: Why I’d rather write in Medium than my personal blog
#7Note that the content you put on Medium is not viewable in Opera Mini on Android, Symbian and J2ME dumbphones.
Yet another yay for medium.
Re: Why I’d rather write in Medium than my personal blog
#8So and do you drive a rental car because, you know, you don't do any maintenance on your own?
Re: Why I’d rather write in Medium than my personal blog
#9So and do you drive a rental car because, you know, you don't do any maintenance on your own?
Great argument. But, not quite the same. I run my personal blog on a $5/mo digital ocean box - I'm too cheap to shell out $100/mo for a managed SingleHop box.
I don't know how to use terminal too much, I just learnt how to reset mysql AFTER my server crashed yesterday.
Re: Why I’d rather write in Medium than my personal blog
#10Why would you post here on HN that you'd rather write on medium when you hardly participate here to begin with?
If it were a post with some actual content I can see why you'd want to post it here for discussion but it is a meta post about the medium you write on, not an actual post. Not exactly hacker news. Personally I think medium is the new geocities, it'll implode one day and leave another big hole in the web unless archive.org or archiveteam get there first.
Beware of who you give control of your content.