What kind of example does it set for FreeCodeCamp to rely on a site like Medium as opposed to making its own site and sharing that code on GitHub? Budding engineers don't need to rely on sites like Medium when they can put together their own sites and learn about SEO.
I'm concerned with the move that FreeCodeCamp just pulled by leaving Medium
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Re: I'm concerned with the move that FreeCodeCamp just pulled by leaving Medium
#22On an unrelated note, I really wish that Medium hadn't gone to a pay-after-three model like everyone else- not only can I not afford it, it feels counter-intuitive. To me, Medium is a place where budding bloggers, industry professionals, etc. can get a start or work on building up and out their careers and influence - and it doesn't make sense to say "you have to spend money to give these people attention", especiall…
what does "pay-after-three" mean?
Re: I'm concerned with the move that FreeCodeCamp just pulled by leaving Medium
#23On an unrelated note, I really wish that Medium hadn't gone to a pay-after-three model like everyone else- not only can I not afford it, it feels counter-intuitive. To me, Medium is a place where budding bloggers, industry professionals, etc. can get a start or work on building up and out their careers and influence - and it doesn't make sense to say "you have to spend money to give these people attention", especiall…
Budding bloggers can just stay outside the pay wall, which applies only to articles that the author chooses to monetize.
Incorrect if you don't publish your articles behind the paywall it will be distributed much less widely
Re: I'm concerned with the move that FreeCodeCamp just pulled by leaving Medium
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
What monetization model would you suggest? The pay after three model only applies when the authors opt-in, and they earn a share of the profits.
What ever happened to writing for free? I don’t want everyone to get paid for posts. It should be rewarded based on merit.
Silicon Valley happened.
Re: I'm concerned with the move that FreeCodeCamp just pulled by leaving Medium
#25On an unrelated note, I really wish that Medium hadn't gone to a pay-after-three model like everyone else- not only can I not afford it, it feels counter-intuitive. To me, Medium is a place where budding bloggers, industry professionals, etc. can get a start or work on building up and out their careers and influence - and it doesn't make sense to say "you have to spend money to give these people attention", especiall…
what does "pay-after-three" mean?
After reading three articles for free, they want you to pay them money to continue reading.
Re: I'm concerned with the move that FreeCodeCamp just pulled by leaving Medium
#26What kind of example does it set for FreeCodeCamp to rely on a site like Medium as opposed to making its own site and sharing that code on GitHub? Budding engineers don't need to rely on sites like Medium when they can put together their own sites and learn about SEO.
That's a really good point, but that may not be ideal from a pure learning perspective.
Engineers are often subject to the whims of management, tight deadlines, dependency quirks, their own personal bias, and so on. A living example would showcase all of those things, but unless you annotate each line and comment excessively, you lose a lot of context.
It's also much easier to follow a tutorial than to dig through commit history and piece everything together yourself.
Re: I'm concerned with the move that FreeCodeCamp just pulled by leaving Medium
#27I thought we had a story a while back about FreeCodeCamp trying to contact the authors while trying to get off Medium.
In the end it seems very strange that Medium, FreeCodeCamp and the authors all were intertwined in very strange ways as far as ownership and why they were involved together.
Re: I'm concerned with the move that FreeCodeCamp just pulled by leaving Medium
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
What monetization model would you suggest? The pay after three model only applies when the authors opt-in, and they earn a share of the profits.
What ever happened to writing for free? I don’t want everyone to get paid for posts. It should be rewarded based on merit.
Yes, but maybe they do want to be paid for their posts. They can choose to write for free, but they didn't.
Re: I'm concerned with the move that FreeCodeCamp just pulled by leaving Medium
#29I'm doing a udemy course that links to freecodecamp articles on medium and I've got to say I'm really happy they are leaving.
Re: I'm concerned with the move that FreeCodeCamp just pulled by leaving Medium
#30On an unrelated note, I really wish that Medium hadn't gone to a pay-after-three model like everyone else- not only can I not afford it, it feels counter-intuitive. To me, Medium is a place where budding bloggers, industry professionals, etc. can get a start or work on building up and out their careers and influence - and it doesn't make sense to say "you have to spend money to give these people attention", especiall…
For the moment their paywall can be bypassed by using private browsing, it might still present you with a nag screen but after that’s closed it should display the article.