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Medium is a site I've wondered about a lot. I'm a total outsider to that side of things, so maybe someone can explain it to me. I see a lot of blogs and interesting articles that are on Medium. What I don't get is why they are there. It doesn't seem to be any different than any other blog site, except maybe it look a bit nicer. But that doesn't seem to be enough to explain how so many things I read are on Medium. Is…
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Discovery. If you cross post and get more traffic to your medium post than the version on an official company blog then it makes sense to keep doing it.
This. I posed identical posts on Tumblr and Medium for a few months, and the Medium traffic was always higher. The more people read it, the more traffic it got. If you put quality content on Medium, it's far more likely to be read.
It's not hard to believe Medium having more traffic than Tumblr, just wanted to understand how people measure this.
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This. I posed identical posts on Tumblr and Medium for a few months, and the Medium traffic was always higher. The more people read it, the more traffic it got. If you put quality content on Medium, it's far more likely to be read.
Sorry for what might be a stupid question but I haven't used Medium and last used Tumblr a few years ago: how do you know how many readers you have? Do these platforms offer stats or is it based on Google Analytics or user comments? It's not hard to believe Medium having more traffic than Tumblr, just wanted to understand how people measure this.
https://medium.com/@Medium/statistics-2971adaa615
https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/215108608-Stats
https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/215793317-Publicat...
What bothers me about Medium is that they originally wanted funding to be able to create long-form, well-researched journalism.That is what they asked for on kickstarter, years back. They got their support, reached their goal, delivered a few stories and then switched to being a blog-software company!? That is not what I backed and paid for.
Are you sure it's Medium you're talking about, and not Matter[1]? I couldn't find anything about Medium on kickstarter. [1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/readmatter/matter
From the updates and emails back then I got the impression that medium was built FOR matter, and then becoming it's main product.
Apparently matter still exists too! :)