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Re: Why Medium Sucks

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>> [getting a quality audience of thousands of people is non-trivial , costs money, or needs a clever strategy] >That hasn't been my experience... It's kind of begging to differ with...yourself? There are some contradictions here. You say you did it in part by writing books, yet typically writing books is considered non-trivial . If these books are trivial to write that doesn't make them bad. However, it could give t…

Sorry, I guess I glossed over the "non-trivial" part on first read. I certainly have put a lot of effort into this, but all of that effort went into the thing itself that the audience was consuming. It's not like I wanted an audience for X and then had to put non-trivial effort into Y. By analogy, bands makes much of their money from selling T-shirts, which is effort unrelated to making the music that people want to…

As a separate point it's great just to hear your music got some traction, somewhere, doing something, most people can only dream of that.

If you ever feel like sharing with a link here, or an email if you want to keep it one on one, it would be welcome.

Re: Why Medium Sucks

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I 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…

It's not a dead horse! 99.999999% of all Flutter tutorial content is on Medium, it seems!

Medium is NOT our community info-repository, but rather the Facebook of blogging, centralizing content further.

Until such a point that the international programming community ceases to centralize ALL INFO EVER on Medium.com we should beat this non-dead horse for all it's worth!

Re: Why Medium Sucks

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Until such a time that I don't find ALL programming info on Medium.com or it's subsites I will continue to decry this increasing centralization of content.

The web is our tool for liberation and this is a subversion of the very principles that the web was founded upon.

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