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noooo... this is what you see on mobile: https://i.redd.it/ao5outqo0es21.png Please use Blogger! if anything, for historic reasons
That is almost hilarious would it not be for real. Out of curiosity may I ask what device you are using?
I despised Medium from the start and saw it as a content farm. I have always had a policy of downvoting or flagging Medium articles on sight. If you have something to say, say it on your own website. Stop being a digital sharecropper.
I despised Medium from the start and saw it as a content farm. I have always had a policy of downvoting or flagging Medium articles on sight. If you have something to say, say it on your own website. Stop being a digital sharecropper.
Plenty of people don’t have the time or technical skills to make their own website. It’s also a good idea if someone wants to post a one off essay and/or post something anonymously and still reach people.
If you benefit from users visiting your website, then post it there. Quality content on a domain name you own will benefit your site’s overall SEO (expertise, authority, trust). Then tweet it and share it on LinkedIn. Posting it on medium would be like giving them all those benefits, while getting a very short burst of visibility. If you absolutely must post on medium, then post only a summary of your main blog. Then…
But after some experiments, I realized that people were only reading the first 10 words and then agreeing or disagreeing based on comments. So it's not possible to do high impact things in that format.
The other downside is that it Facebook, LinkedIn, HN, etc, they force you to fit their format. You can't post a full blown 5000 word article because nobody will read it. It has to be refined in a way, which is good, but not everything can be simplified, and complex ideas just don't work.
Medium, as well as places like DEV, are full of people who write to promoting themselves as experts or marketing a service. They're focused on either making everything look like a nail or making small problems seem more complex than it is. There's very little actual interesting content or deep thoughts on complex situations, and/or the algorithm does not show them. It's also really hard to identify the bad content at a glance; you'd have to read stuff for 3 minutes to discover the author has no idea what they're talking about.
So Medium and DEV, while technically decent, are so filled with junk that anything on there is associated with junk.
May I take this opportunity to recommend Epiphany, a new blogging experience tailored for tech content? https://epiphany.pub/post?refId=2684bc94f9fcb9ffe637ebfbeba2... Epiphany is a crossover of Jupyter notebook and Medium.com, Not only can you write text, you can also program on it, to create interactive examples, see: https://epiphany.pub/post?refId=4c411b8a0b5207739f97e787d2af... In addition to interactivity, Epip…