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Not 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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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.
Source: https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/360018834314-Stori...
Not 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.
I have yet to figure out the 'persona' for Medium users. From time to time you can come across some decent content, but the loops and hoops you have to go through to read it are simply not worth my time.
There are two categories of resume-spam:
1. "Sunny" filler that doesn't really say anything new (e.g. "The Future Is Serverless"). The preferred platform for this seems to be LinkedIn.
2. "Edgy" filler that doesn't really say anything new (e.g. "Serverless Considered Harmful", or "Why I Don't Use Serverless"). The preferred platform for this seems to be Medium.
It's still a work in progress and I'm trying to figure out some sort of strategy, especially a content policy around not allowing clickbait and spammy "how to use learn redis in 3 minutes" type articles. I'd probably have to cap the max number of users and publication to a few thousand since I don't have the resources for this to be anything more than a hobby project.
I'm aware of a couple of others working in the same space. Write.as comes to mind, thought I don't think they're doing publications etc.
It'll take me a lot of time to build my own website and content that gives me the same result. So, there's that.
Sorry, not a native speaker.
I 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
I would be really curious if anyone who does post on Medium was able to offer some insights into where most their readers come from. Is it from people already on Medium or external. Don't know if they even have access to metrics like that.
I'm currently working on an alternative to Medium. So far it has all the elementary things like a working editor, notes and highlights, a decent commenting system. There are publications too, with teams, submissions etc. User profiles and publications have custom domains, custom CSS for branding. There's also a somewhat half-working Github integration for advanced writers but I'll need to work on it a fair bit to pol…
It’s halfway through the month and I’m blocked by Medium. It is a bit frustrating. I’m not sure about this comment though: “Learn to market yourself and your content. Quit being lazy waiting for Medium to do it for you.” Maybe I am lazy but there really isn’t an easy and inexpensive way to market your blogs or apps.
> Maybe I am lazy but there really isn’t an easy and inexpensive way to market your blogs or apps. HN, Reddit, and other social networks?
Not to mention the fact that if you self-submit anything to those sites people tend to take it as an invitation to eviscerate you.