Is there a suggested alternative people should be turning to as opposed to building their own, especially if their expertise is in writing or some other field than computer science or web design?
Can we all stop using Medium now?
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#12The main argument in this article doesn't apply unless the Medium writer enabled the partner program on the post. That's what enables the pay wall.
A huge percentage of the authors behind the paywall don’t realize that they are. It seems like Medium might have made this option less clear than it needs to be be (like by describing the benefits but not the drawbacks) or made it on by default.
Re: Can we all stop using Medium now?
#13Is there a suggested alternative people should be turning to as opposed to building their own, especially if their expertise is in writing or some other field than computer science or web design?
Though I also kinda resent the idea that, just because I have the skills to build my own blog from scratch, I'd want to waste even one second building it, setting it up, configuring it, maintaining it, fixing it, implementing basic features that other platforms already have, etc.
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#14I don't publish anything ever really so I don't understand the appeal of using Medium. Can anyone explain it to me? Is it just the ease of use? Write some text, click button, it's available online?
Originally it was their easy editor. Now I just don’t know, since every other blog copied the editor.
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#15The main argument in this article doesn't apply unless the Medium writer enabled the partner program on the post. That's what enables the pay wall.
A huge percentage of the authors behind the paywall don’t realize that they are. It seems like Medium might have made this option less clear than it needs to be be (like by describing the benefits but not the drawbacks) or made it on by default.
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Re: Can we all stop using Medium now?
#16The main argument in this article doesn't apply unless the Medium writer enabled the partner program on the post. That's what enables the pay wall.
A huge percentage of the authors behind the paywall don’t realize that they are. It seems like Medium might have made this option less clear than it needs to be be (like by describing the benefits but not the drawbacks) or made it on by default.
Nah man, I considered turning it on for no reason in particular.
Asked me for bank account routing info.
Wasn't interested about it that much.
Definitely not on by default.
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#17I know this doesn't justify all the issues but I'm at least a little excited that someone is trying to create a media/news service that isn't ad based. Seems like we have a way to go but at least this is a start.
I'm a little surprised that there are so many complaints here - I bet a lot of the same people complaining also complain about ad based services and now they create news / journalism / articles designed for clicks and not quality content.
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#18Not everyone has the time to create their own platform and curation network. That's the reason why people will keep using Medium. We need to stop acting like it's easy to build these types of platforms.
WordPress, Blogspot, even Xanga and LiveJournal predate Medium and didn't have to resort to subscription services.
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#19jeez, could you jack my mobile scrolling any further? not reading that for any longer than 2 seconds
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#20I don't publish anything ever really so I don't understand the appeal of using Medium. Can anyone explain it to me? Is it just the ease of use? Write some text, click button, it's available online?
Built-in audience of readers