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This 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.
Eh, 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
But at the end of the day, if you're blogging for your business/startup it makes more sense for it to be under your control as you can leverage the analytics and if possible turn them into conversions.
Why 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 unl…
Medium's editor was just a lot nicer.
This 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.
Why 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 unl…
You're right. I was more active on Inbound.org vs Hacker News simply because I used to primarily write marketing content. The post I wrote yesterday which was actually a rant about the growth hacking buzzword hit the first page of HN momentarily. That obviously caused a server crash which made me want to switch ship to Medium / Quora. Medium's editor was just a lot nicer.
There are many, many places for long-form content that won't crash under load. Posterous's replacement, Tumblr, Wordpress.com, etc. "Not crashing" is a bizarre and bad reason to choose exclusively Medium.
I had the same Error establishing a database connection incident. So I moved to Github Pages. There are many, many places for long-form content that won't crash under load. Posterous's replacement, Tumblr, Wordpress.com, etc. "Not crashing" is a bizarre and bad reason to choose exclusively Medium.
I had the same Error establishing a database connection incident. So I moved to Github Pages. There are many, many places for long-form content that won't crash under load. Posterous's replacement, Tumblr, Wordpress.com, etc. "Not crashing" is a bizarre and bad reason to choose exclusively Medium.
Medium has a prettier editor? I could get featured on the first page of medium if my content doesn't suck?
Also, getting on the front page of Medium is mostly irrelevant since you have mostly nil personal branding anyways. If you're going to hit #1 on Hacker News, do it on a website you own with your own content.