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Re: Why Medium Sucks

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Post by rylandgold » Thu, Jun 06, 2019, 3:37 PM UTC

overshard wrote: post #10

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…

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 a crap platform

Re: Why Medium Sucks

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jun 06, 2019, 3:37 PM UTC

octosphere wrote: post #12

This is why I am a big fan of POSSE[0] which is an abbreviation for Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere, a content publishing model that starts with posting content on your own domain first, then syndicating out copies to 3rd party services with permashortlinks back to the original on your site. [0] https://indieweb.org/POSSE Also worth reading: https://medium.com/@joe_wegner/why-i-dont-write-for-medium-c…

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Re: Why Medium Sucks

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Post by sergiotapia » Thu, Jun 06, 2019, 3:37 PM UTC

What would be the easiest, most inexpensive way to host a blog with code support today?

Re: Why Medium Sucks

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Post by kowdermeister » Thu, Jun 06, 2019, 3:38 PM UTC

duxup wrote: post #2

I 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.

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.

Re: Why Medium Sucks

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Post by rylandgold » Thu, Jun 06, 2019, 3:38 PM UTC

someexgamedev wrote: post #6

It must be doing something right otherwise why spend the time writing a thousand words about how bad it is? If it were truly bad it would just fade into obscurity

I get your point but this is a really bad way to raise it.

Re: Why Medium Sucks

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Post by amelius » Thu, Jun 06, 2019, 3:39 PM UTC

overshard wrote: post #10

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…

> HOW to get communities onto better platforms

Well, we had a pretty good platform that had one big community and it was called the internet.

Re: Why Medium Sucks

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Post by rylandgold » Thu, Jun 06, 2019, 3:40 PM UTC

kowdermeister wrote: post #24

duxup wrote: post #2

I 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.

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

Re: Why Medium Sucks

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Post by mecharoid » Thu, Jun 06, 2019, 3:44 PM UTC

To the front page we go...

Re: Why Medium Sucks

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Post by steeleduncan » Thu, Jun 06, 2019, 3:44 PM UTC

sergiotapia wrote: post #23

What would be the easiest, most inexpensive way to host a blog with code support today?

What do you mean by "with code support"?

Re: Why Medium Sucks

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Post by eXpl0it3r » Thu, Jun 06, 2019, 3:44 PM UTC

amelius wrote: post #26

overshard wrote: post #10

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…

> HOW to get communities onto better platforms Well, we had a pretty good platform that had one big community and it was called the internet.

Unfortunately the discoverability isn't that great and mostly ruled by one company (Google).