Jupyter Notebook based blog site?
I also think this this a great idea. I'm making https://epiphany.pub , a mixture of medium.com + Jupyter notebook.
Why Medium Sucks
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#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think Medium barely has a community. I also think you're right when you say > I find the discussion of HOW to get communities onto better platforms to be a more interesting topic than why the current platform sucks, especially when that platform doesn't even seem to listen to the criticism. But you need to remember that's a very progressive position. Most friends I have are completely unaware that Medium has become…
>[Medium barely has a community]... Define barely. With all due and sincere respect, have you ever tried to build an audience or community from zero without partners, a leverage point, or an ad budget? Even getting a quality audience of thousands is non-trivial or costs money or needs a clever strategy. It reminds me of when people say, "I have an idea for a startup but I'm worried about people stealing it." I try to…
> Define barely. With all due and sincere respect, have you ever tried to build an audience or community from zero without partners, a leverage point, or an ad budget?
The Internet has been building communities from its inception. Medium has nothing on the average fan forum, IRC channel or even subreddit. They grow organically and if moderated properly, can last decades on zero budget.
But it also seems like you're not talking about actual communities, but about potential sales targets (ad budget? partners?).
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#113I think Medium is great. I pitched an article to an online magazine, about UBI. They said they ran one too recently, so I figured I'd self publish. I could have put it on my site, read by zero people, but I figured a medium.com URL would get farther wherever I submitted it. I was right, but not only that, the Medium twitter account tweeted my article, and Medium asked if they could edit it and make an audio version.…
That sounds like a great outcome, but it's predicated on having been hand selected by Medium to share your specific story. 99% of posts won't get that same treatment. Would your outcomes have been similar without that boost? That is, just by posting on Medium, would you have achieved a reasonable level of reach otherwise?
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#114I know SEO and visibility is high on Medium. I'm still a bit amazed that so many people, many of them who aren't short on visibility, chose to host their content on that site. Most of it i would have rather read on someone's personal site as IMO that adds a lot of character and context.
Every personal site I've ever seen looks worse than Medium. I don't want the "character" of a slightly different UI every time, I want the interface to get out of my way so that I can get on with reading the actual content. Medium does that (yes, subject to logging in, but you can do that once and forget about it).
On a related note, this is why when I search for a person, film, or other thing, I'll take the Wikipedia result every time over IMDB or some top ranking site. With Wikipedia, I know how the information will be formatted so I can find what I need quickly.
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#115> Let's start with something simple, like syntax highlighting.
I built a syntax highlighter, Shiki, that allows you to use any theme from VS Code to color your code [0]. It works great with Node now as a static website generator plugin, but with some effort you can run it all in client side as well. TypeScript's new handbook is using Shiki [1].
I can't really believe how it's 2019 and Medium and Slack still can't syntax highlight code snippets.
[1]: https://microsoft.github.io/TypeScript-New-Handbook/chapters...
Re: Why Medium Sucks
#116I feel like we are beating a dead horse here. Everyone I talk to knows Medium sucks. I personally hate the modal that comes up every time if I'm not logged in and how much of my screen is take up by fixed bars. Medium has a community though. Facebook sucks, but it has a community. Twitter sucks, but it has a community. You are going to get more people to see your post if you put it on Medium. You are going to get mor…
> I personally hate the modal that comes up every time if I'm not logged in and how much of my screen is take up by fixed bars. Regarding this, you can block these UI elements using content blockers. I have used uBlock Origin to block these on my Safari Mac and AdGuard to block them on iOS. I am sure similar equivalents exist for other browsers too which you might use. I shared a few examples on how to do that on a r…
> Regarding this, you can block these UI elements using content blockers.
Oh, wow, this is kind of a revelation to me, I can block the overlay, the bottom fixed banner and the top fixed header and suddenly even medium is a decent reading experience. Thanks for the tip, I'll be using it on other sites too!
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#117What if the bro-culture of coders is an echo bubble that doesn't even understand what Medium has become?
So you guys are going to create your own paywalled walled garden for coding content? What's your solution even.
https://medium.com/1-one-infinity/why-medium-doesnt-suck-f04...
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#118I don't think we need a centralised publishing platform like Medium ever again. Anyone can create a blog for free using Wordpress. RSS feeds are amazing and it can easily serve the job of subscribing to these blogs. Look at the podcasting community for example. It's built on top of RSS feeds and it is thriving. Nobody needs a Medium.com in Podcasting world. What we need in the blogging world are more platforms and ap…
Well decentralization is mostly a sham in its current state. You think people will care about Block.One's Voice app? Steemit more or less died. Hacker Noon got greedy. Wordpress blogs are dead.
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hosting content there is okay as long as you put your own domain on it. The migrating away from it won't cause too much problem if some trouble rises.
They are specifically making that process harder and harder. That's partly why HackerNoon left
And where are they now, HackerNoon? Growing a team and scamming investors?
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#120I feel like we are beating a dead horse here. Everyone I talk to knows Medium sucks. I personally hate the modal that comes up every time if I'm not logged in and how much of my screen is take up by fixed bars. Medium has a community though. Facebook sucks, but it has a community. Twitter sucks, but it has a community. You are going to get more people to see your post if you put it on Medium. You are going to get mor…
Some good points here.
The removal of custom domains is unfortunate.
I wish they'd put that back in.