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Re: Medium is not the home for your ideas

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Post by midasz »

nicbou wrote: post #166
MangoCoffee wrote: post #141

"It’s always better to own your platform" - 100% i listen to some Joe Rogan's podcast when he got some interesting guests. i don't remember which one but Joe mentioned Twitter ban Zuby for a reply to someone with "OK, dude". i look up Zuby and yup. Twitter ban Zuby for saying "OK, dude" to someone. how the fuck is "OK, dude" hateful? Joe said Zuby is the nicest guy that he ever meet and Joe is right. they come for Zu…

> the cancel culture in the West Is it really in the West, or just in the United States? Perhaps I'm just not paying attention, but I don't recall anything similar happening in my country. At least it definitely doesn't seem to have the same importance.

Also happens in the Netherlands, for example Anne fleur Dekker -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Fleur_Dekker

Re: Medium is not the home for your ideas

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Post by midasz »

li4ick wrote: post #12

There's one thing I want to scream at every front-end developer out there: STOP OPENING POPUPS WHEN I'M SELECTING TEXT! Again: STOP OPENING POPUPS WHEN I'M SELECTING TEXT!

Yeah this is honestly the biggest reason for me not to use medium. I genuinely cannot help selecting text and clicking the paragraphs (highlighting them) while reading. God knows how many mice have died in my care. I think it might have to do with ADHD or something, but I've never been tested.

Re: Medium is not the home for your ideas

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Post by onli »

vishnu_ks wrote: post #144
Narann wrote: post #133

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This is seriously awesome! Is there plan for non-English blog posts? Dev community is mostly in English, but many blog posts around the world are in native language. Some blogs write in English and non-English and it's very hard for me to find content in my language. This also prevents me from registering my blog on diff.blog as my blog contains English and non-English content. Hope the best for your project!

Thank you!. At the moment diff.blog only parses English blogs from the feed. So If your blog has mixed content you can still submit the blog. I have plan for supporting other langauges as well in future. Creating subdomains like de.diff.blog, ml.diff.blog, etc which only contains the blog posts in the respective languages should probably be good enough. The main difficulty is finding the initial set of blogs that are…

Hey, I blog in German for many years now and have my blog in a different open source planet. If you want some input about that language, shoot me a mail (it's in my HN profile).

Looking at your site I'm noticing there seems to be no RSS feed? I think that would make a good addition. You could have one personalized feed and one global one, like Reddit does it.

I'd also like to note that I was surprised about the github login. My blog has no connection to Github at all, most blogs won't, so I'm not seeing how that could work for others when people suggest their blogs?

Re: Medium is not the home for your ideas

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Post by randomdude402 »

amelius wrote: post #215
jiggawatts wrote: post #55

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What's the best static site generator that meets the following requirements: a) Doesn't use node.js. b) Has built-in syntax highlighting for C#, SQL, PowerShell and Rust at a minimum. c) Is also good at "photo journals" or galleries. I played around with Hugo, but the themes were ugly and it was very weak at managing pictures associated with an entry instead of the entire site.

> What's the best static site generator that meets the following requirements: a) Doesn't use node.js. So even if a node.js solution would be the best solution, you would still not want to use it? Why? Anyway, I'd recommend to write a static site generator yourself. It isn't very difficult, you get exactly what you need, and you never get stuck because someone abandoned their project or doesn't want to fix the bugs y…

Not OP, but asking for a static site generator implies simplicity. Node is pretty famous for generally having large dependency trees and churn with tooling.

It doesn't seem that strange to want to avoid it for such a project.

Re: Medium is not the home for your ideas

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Post by [deleted] »

axegon_ wrote: post #126
abdullahkhalids wrote: post #114

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Pelican [1] works this way, and I love it for my blog/website. I write a post in markdown, commit and run a pelican-provided script that uploads the generated site to the hosting server. The script-running could be done with a hook. [1] https://blog.getpelican.com/

Um... No, it doesn't. > I write a post in markdown, commit and run a pelican-provided script that uploads the generated site to the hosting server. The script-running could be done with a hook. This is exactly what I don't want to deal with. Sure, I could use a ci service but this is a typical case of over-engineering a simple problem.

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Re: Medium is not the home for your ideas

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Post by rvz »

joelrunyon wrote: post #16

I've been yelling about this for years, but please start & own your own blog. Use webflow, ghost or whatever you like, but wordpress is good enough for most people. HN audience can likely handle their own, but if ease-of-setup is an issue - I created StartABlog.com to help people do this (and we'll actually set up your site for you for free - https://startablog.com/start ). Own your platform. Own your content. Own yo…

> Own your platform. Own your content. Own your voice. Use everything else as distribution methods - not core dependencies.

Precisely this.

I also have been yelling [0] about hosting your own GitLab, Gitea solution for individuals, companies and open-source organisations which frees you from the mercy of 'centralising everything' in GitHub which is nonsensical.

Medium is essentially centralising and bringing blogs back into the dark ages with paywalls, de-platforming and Google Logins on someone else's blogging site.

Own your code on your servers just like you own your website and blog. If the creator of Wireguard can do it, you can do it too.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23849565

Re: Medium is not the home for your ideas

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Post by tjpnz »

axegon_ wrote: post #65
joelrunyon wrote: post #16

I've been yelling about this for years, but please start & own your own blog. Use webflow, ghost or whatever you like, but wordpress is good enough for most people. HN audience can likely handle their own, but if ease-of-setup is an issue - I created StartABlog.com to help people do this (and we'll actually set up your site for you for free - https://startablog.com/start ). Own your platform. Own your content. Own yo…

I agree. Many years ago I was really happy with medium as a reader. And the feed algorithm was decent enough. By no means the perfect content but for the most part it pushed forward things I was interested in. However, the monetization model turned medium(originally a decent blogging platform) into tumblr and it was a race to the bottom from that point. Any website that asks you to register in order to read a blog po…

It's rather telling that the first thing Medium does is flash a login prompt in your face when landing on one of their pages. At that point I tend to go elsewhere.

Re: Medium is not the home for your ideas

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Post by randomdude402 »

jiggawatts wrote: post #55
joelrunyon wrote: post #16

I've been yelling about this for years, but please start & own your own blog. Use webflow, ghost or whatever you like, but wordpress is good enough for most people. HN audience can likely handle their own, but if ease-of-setup is an issue - I created StartABlog.com to help people do this (and we'll actually set up your site for you for free - https://startablog.com/start ). Own your platform. Own your content. Own yo…

What's the best static site generator that meets the following requirements: a) Doesn't use node.js. b) Has built-in syntax highlighting for C#, SQL, PowerShell and Rust at a minimum. c) Is also good at "photo journals" or galleries. I played around with Hugo, but the themes were ugly and it was very weak at managing pictures associated with an entry instead of the entire site.

I've been thinking about putting something out there as well. I'll probably end up using Pelican since I'm a Python fan.

As a side note, I can't believe how many people are salty that you don't want to use node. It would be funny if it weren't so sad.

Re: Medium is not the home for your ideas

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Post by randomdude402 »

jannes wrote: post #123
detaro wrote: post #33

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I think so. There was a phase where there was clean design + many high-profile users pushing it a bit above other platforms. Nowadays clean design is more commonplace, they ruined their own design, more low-quality content, ... push them far down.

I remember the clean design phase. It's easy to forget, but back then medium was really impressive. Their design team posted an article about quotation marks in 2015 and I still remember it today: https://medium.design/quotation-marks-c8993b54417c

I don't have the link handy, but I also remember their team posting about how the process of creating the underlines for their hyperlinks and thinking how interesting it was to see all the thought and process they had out into it.

Re: Medium is not the home for your ideas

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Post by PaulHoule »

Given that medium is so choked with content marketing and parodies of content marketing, it's amazing you.can have a post zapped by the spam filter.

I mean, it is hard to find something on medium which isn't some variant of 'hiring is broken' sponsored by triplebyte (let's really break it!)

Mulesoft getting bought by Salesforce has given us some respite from 'does your content marketing strategy need an app strategy?' They never ask 'what are the two things you need to build a business around an api?' or 'what are the two features you never get from an app management platform?' because those two questions have the same answer.

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