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Re: Can we all stop using Medium now?

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Post by chrshawkes »

bwasti wrote: post #100

I wrote one article on Medium. I ended up writing my own little version using open source markdown rendering to see how hard it would be to roll my own, https://jott.live From what I found, there is a lot of stuff Medium does well that is hard to recreate by one's self. Super simple features, like - rich text editing that isn't ugly - caching what you're currently working on - tracking views and who has viewed your a…

They use Quill.js - rich editing (you can use this in your project easily)

Caching/saving work just simple AJAX calls to a localized database or filesystem which can store the JSON data that Quill.JS creates.

Google Analytics is free and offers more customer insight and analysis opportunities and it's as simple as a script tag inclusion in the html.

I plan to show how to replicate this website in a matter of minutes on my YouTube channel.

Re: Can we all stop using Medium now?

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Post by corobo »

vonmoltke wrote: post #264
corobo wrote: post #224

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fair comment. Unfortunately (for me!) I'm going to have to look like a bit of a wally. I can't elaborate on it and my stance has changed in the time since I posted (while looking up my former 'facts'). 1) Based on the GDPR comment. If you're really careful with how you do things the IP address could be argued to not be personal information (never let a user associate IP with any other PI - e.g. if a user can ban anot…

> If you're really careful with how you do things the IP address could be argued to not be personal information Current guidance (from the legal profession, not the HN peanut gallery) is that IPs are standalone personal data.

You got a source on that if you're going to be referring to the rest of us as a peanut gallery?

Everything I know and have found says IPs are classed as personal data only if combined with other data. I've yet to find anything that supports your claim, which is why I changed my mind on this.

Re: Can we all stop using Medium now?

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Post by vonmoltke »

dspillett wrote: post #186
KingMachiavelli wrote: post #92

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I wonder if anything has changed since GDPR passed as I am pretty sure you are suppose to be able to download your content but I'm not sure how that works when accounts are deleted and/or banned. Regarding your situation and concerns of other comments... Many people in this thread point out that marketing and creating an audience is difficult work. But I think obvious-in-hindsight solution is to always keep a backup…

> pretty sure you are suppose to be able to download your content I'm not sure that such content would count, though I'd have to review the wording of the GDPR to be sure. Its intent is to cover information about you that companies/people have collected or derived - which may not include things you have written about other things. Even if the GDPRs "right to know what is stored about you" provisions does cover this s…

> I'm not sure that such content would count, though I'd have to review the wording of the GDPR to be sure. Its intent is to cover information about you that companies/people have collected or derived - which may not include things you have written about other things.

All the actual legal guidance I have seen says it does count, because the content can be cross-references with third parties to identify the author and the fact that they once posted this text on this service. This, if they close their account or delete the specific article the content must be purged.

Re: Can we all stop using Medium now?

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Post by nightski »

jessaustin wrote: post #107
xkcd-sucks wrote: post #77

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Have you ever met someone who navigaed to medium.com to fin articles, or is this a matter of faith?

If one ever makes the mistake of giving Medium a valid email address, one's inbox will be 78% Medium article recommendations until one gets quite aggressive with the spam flags.

It's quite easy to disable the daily or weekly digests if you don't want them. Not saying I think medium is perfect, but there are better ways to approach the problem then training a spam filter.

Re: Can we all stop using Medium now?

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Post by frankzen »

fiala__ wrote: post #169
Jerry2 wrote: post #151

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> When you write articles on Medium keep in mind you're writing on someone else's website and they don't give a damn about you. You are subject to their opinions about what is appropriate and what isn't. Same can be said about other platforms like YouTube etc. When you produce content for all these mega-platforms, you're nothing more than a sharecropper... a digital one. [0] You really have no rights and you're at th…

The problem with YouTube specifically, is that while blog posts are easy to host on pretty much anything that has a CPU, self-hosting videos at scale is essentially impossible. So while Medium only added a marginal amount of convenience for your average blogger, YouTube straight up enabled the kind of content it hosts.

Three letters: AWS

Same issue with regards to control but not as policed as YouTube...

Re: Can we all stop using Medium now?

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Post by marc_io »

kgraves wrote: post #212
silveroriole wrote: post #185

Seems like not many commenters are giving a perspective on why people might like Medium more than going to a personal blog. Here’s mine. As a reader, I usually don’t care who wrote the post I’m reading. I also don’t care about seeing more content from the same person, which is all I would get on a personal blog; in fact, I would prefer to see related content but different viewpoints from other people, which is what M…

Agreed, given the choice between Medium and a custom blog if I am a publisher, Medium is much faster to get up and running with a blog and has a larger reach than me setting it all up myself. Many people who aren't technical don't want to have to manage rolling their own comments system, custom SEO, analytics and all of that stuff.

This can also be done either with a free WordPress.com account or with a simple shared hosting that supports WP (if you are willing to pay). Medium has no exclusivity on this.

Re: Can we all stop using Medium now?

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Post by [deleted] »

speedplane wrote: post #217
the_other wrote: post #210

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> I was writing on Medium because it ranks well in Google. This highlights one of the ways Google has gone off-piste. The host or platform shouldn't affect your ranking/SEO this much. The same article on two platforms show rank side-by-side when searching by content. There's no reason to trust Medium above other platforms.

> The host or platform shouldn't affect your ranking/SEO this much. This is true for medium, but not universally true. It's pretty reasonable to rank an article in a well known credible publication than a random blog, as there is likely some editorial quality checks in the publication. However, with medium, there is no editorial check, they just know how to game the system better than a casual blogger.

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Re: Can we all stop using Medium now?

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Post by throwaway13000 »

I have decided not to post on internet platforms that take my content and put it behind a login wall. I guess if I post a blog or video, I expect that everyone must be able to view it without having to login. Only then I will give my content to your platform. This will stop the web from being a bunch of islands.

Re: Can we all stop using Medium now?

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Post by fbn79 »

omarchowdhury wrote: post #240
fbn79 wrote: post #236

To make a parallelism with traditional paper it's like to say that everyone want to publish an article must become an editor and found a newspaper. That's not realistic. Medium and other platform put a lot on work on promotion, positioning and creating an engagement place for writers and readers. I don't think that every writer must became an editor in digital era. It's like to say that if you are a musician you have…

Medium doesn't provide editing services, nor do they promote your content. Your content promotes itself by merit of engagement with readers.

But Medium promote the platform, attract readers and give visibility to you article. I think is the same think a traditional newspaper do.
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