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Re: Medium suspended our account and blocked access to all our published stories

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Post by wgjordan »

nvus wrote: post #203
minitech wrote: post #201

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> SPA => Nope This seems like a positive aspect for a blog? Most blogs are pretty far removed from being “applications”.

Would that be a negative aspect? Why wouldn't you try to bring the best possible experience to your reader?

> Why wouldn't you try to bring the best possible experience to your reader?

A blog is (usually) a collection of documents. For this use-case, using standard hypertext (standard HTML documents delivered over standard HTTP to every standards-compliant browser) does bring the best possible experience to your readers.

Delivering a single HTML document stuffed with some hand-crafted Javascript code trying to re-invent hypertext will not bring a better experience to your readers (especially not any readers who disable JavaScript), unless your blog is something more specific/unusual than a collection of documents and actually fits something other than hypertext better.

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Post by Alex3917 »

bookofjoe wrote: post #134

Am I the last TypePad user? I never see it mentioned anywhere, including this entire comment thread. Based on my blog traffic in recent years, it would appear that, like De Niro rants in "The Deer Hunter" — "I'm the only one here."

I still use TypePad. I actually like it much more than Medium, much better typography imho.

Re: Medium suspended our account and blocked access to all our published stories

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Post by nradov »

Natsu wrote: post #185
ChicagoDave wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Clinton certainly didn’t help her cause, but psychographic warfare absolutely had an impact, even if it’s not measureable. Ads/Stories were put in front of micro-targeted social media recipients with one of two goals. Increase fear/anger on right so people would vote. Increase apathy/disgust on left and with independents to discourage them from voting or to vote for a third party. If you micro-target even the smalles…

> Clinton certainly didn’t help her cause, but psychographic warfare absolutely had an impact, even if it’s not measureable. Hillary spent quite a lot more than Trump[1] and had her own army on social media called Correct the Record. I believe it's now Share Blue? The sad thing is that modern politics is based on who can make the other guy the most hated, as this seems to drive the most votes. [1] http://fortune.com/…

According to favorability surveys, Hillary Clinton was widely disliked even before Donald Trump declared his candidacy. Regardless of whether the hatred was deserved, the DNC made a serious error in nominating a candidate with such negative ratings among the broader populace.

http://www.people-press.org/2015/05/19/hillary-clinton-appro...

Re: Medium suspended our account and blocked access to all our published stories

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Post by dpats »

chiefalchemist wrote: post #140
smg wrote: post #9

A blanket statement like 'Medium is bad' does not have enough nuance. Medium is for profit centralized service. You are trading freedom for convenience and access to an audience. It is for you to decide if this tradeoff is profitable. For me, having Medium as the sole repository of my content does not seem like the right tradeoff. Maintaining a static site with a CDN costs less than 5$ a month. Having complete contro…

Agreed. But I think you can do both. That is have your own self-hosted and then __occasionally__ do a Medium post for audience, etc. If it helps, envision Medium as a social network. You share to FB, TW, etc. Medium would be a slightly longer post.

As a reader, I use Medium because it recommends articles that I enjoy and probably won't otherwise come across.

I would appreciate publishers who follow your solution of doing both!

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Post by ryanar »

RobGav wrote: post #59

This is why I use Publii https://getpublii.com It's open source, free static CMS with GUI and free themes. You can easily sync your website with Netlify, GitHub Pages, Google Cloud, S3 or SFTP.

Set up publii for a non-technical client, it looked like everything the client needed, but a few stumbling blocks

1) Themes are too limited, there are 2) Even though it has a pretty good GUI, it is still confusing for non-technical people, and I struggled a lot with it too, mostly because there aren't tooltips next to fields to explain them (e.g. what is the difference between a "title" and a "label" for a link?)

I'll have to unfortunately move to something else for my client, and revisit publii at a later time.

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Post by jamalone »

alpb wrote: post #103
scrollaway wrote: post #37

Hey everyone, if you're looking for a fantastic blog engine, I want to tell you about Ghost: https://ghost.org I found Ghost while looking for a new blog engine for my company. My first instinct was to use Medium as well, but I ended up hitting a lot of issues because it was impossible for us to customize it (add custom javascript, charts, disable the lame "highlights", custom domain was not free, etc...). 1. Ghost i…

As many others indicated, static sites are much better unless you need dynamic features. Static sites make deployments much easier, doesn't depend on any OS/runtime, doesn't lock you in to a particular database. You just write markdown and with little to no modification, the same thing could just work on Hugo, or Jekyll.

As a fan of Ghost’s design and preferring static sites, I started using Jekyll with the theme Jasper2, which was based on Ghost’s default theme Casper. Super easy to set up and use if you’re comfortable with not having the ghost editor, and with github pages hosting and publishing was a breeze.

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Post by bmc7505 »

remir wrote: post #116
scrollaway wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use Jekyll; I used Hugo and Pelican in the past. They solve a very specific use case. But if you want to allow guest posting on your blog, a static site will not do. You need something that has drafts, that has a proper editor, that has a UI you can add and invite people to. Ghost solves that.

Netlify CMS solved the problem you described. https://www.netlifycms.org/

In theory, is there any reason why this couldn't support git-based comments as well? Maybe through a PR-style interface?

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Post by gkya »

smg wrote: post #9

A blanket statement like 'Medium is bad' does not have enough nuance. Medium is for profit centralized service. You are trading freedom for convenience and access to an audience. It is for you to decide if this tradeoff is profitable. For me, having Medium as the sole repository of my content does not seem like the right tradeoff. Maintaining a static site with a CDN costs less than 5$ a month. Having complete contro…

Yeah that's until your CDN or hosting provider decides to censor your. Turns out those are a for profit centralised service too, way more often than not.

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Post by gkya »

alanh wrote: post #21
Hedja wrote: post #13

Always publish on your own platform then syndicate it across all the relevant social media providers to get exposure. It's a huge pain, especially now that most platforms are closed and don't provide automation (APIs, RSS), but it's really the most flexible solution. It also makes syndicating to new providers a lot less painful since you'll have some standard raw form (e.g. Markdown) which you can create a manual or…

Standard reminder that Markdown, while pleasant to author in, is perhaps one of the least standard formats ever (every implementation does things their own way; see Babelmark 2) and not a great archive format, largely as a result. (Markdown files don’t have version or flavor information embedded) I hear org-mode is a good alternative. In the mean time, consider storing a permanent .html version upon publication of ma…

As a daily user of org mode for notes, agenda, todo lists and word-processing (I LOVE IT) I'd recommend against using it for sth. like a blog. I did try. First of all it's a moving target, new syntax is introduced not-infrequently. Then, the API is cumbersome at times, and it's also slow. My org-publish setup with an RSS exporting function bolted on took many tens of seconds to export, even when only a single file was modified. I migrated to Textile for my website. It's implementations are all compatible, and it's way more comprehensive than any version of markdown.

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Post by gkya »

ssimpson wrote: post #92
fyfy18 wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you are concerned about the privacy of your readers, using Disqus probably isn't such a good idea: https://replyable.com/2017/03/disqus-is-your-data-worth-trad...

Good point. There are probably other like services. I don’t really get much traffic!

The best other service: a mailto: link. People do write e-mails on posts they like, sometimes. Also, 9 out of 10 comment threads under blog posts I've read are just plain stupid logorrhoea.

Maybe a subreddit would work too?

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