Ironically this page doesn’t work on mobile. It doesn’t have inertial scrolling, and I just have no patience for that. I stopped reading after the first paragraph.
Works on Firefox 66.0.5 on Android 9
Can we all stop using Medium now?
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Re: Can we all stop using Medium now?
#312Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your second quote implies that the paywall and the partner program are separate.
Partner Program is a prerequisite for having paywalled articles. https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/360018677974-About...
I don't see why, that link still implies that you can have paywalled articles without being part of the partner program.
Follow the chart from the top:
> Are you enrolled in the partner program? NO
> Would you like to be eligible for curator review? YES
> Was the story curated? YES
> Story is distributed by Medium, is part of the paywall, and does not earn money.
Re: Can we all stop using Medium now?
#313Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not convinced your interpretation is correct. GDPR Article 4[1] states that "personal data" means "any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’)", so it covers anything you produce that's somehow related to you. [1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...
Well, as said, if the content itself can be considered personal data then sure.
My entire point was that "personal data" as defined in Article 4 is any data related to you, not just names, photos and so on
Re: Can we all stop using Medium now?
#314Earlier quoted context omitted.
That is similar to the stupid IANAL preface people insist on including. Quite frankly you can literally make a post stating you are a lawyer and the following is legal advice and there would not be a single repercussion.
I think pretending to be a lawyer (or a doctor) could actually land you in a world of legal hurt - that's one of the features of licensed professions. (IANAL though, check with your local laws and all.)
There's fraudently practicing as a doctor, and there's posting bullshit on a website about bullshit. And I'd know, I'm a lawyer and a doctor.
Re: Can we all stop using Medium now?
#315Earlier quoted context omitted.
Partner Program is a prerequisite for having paywalled articles. https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/360018677974-About...
I don't see why, that link still implies that you can have paywalled articles without being part of the partner program. Follow the chart from the top: > Are you enrolled in the partner program? NO > Would you like to be eligible for curator review? YES > Was the story curated? YES > Story is distributed by Medium, is part of the paywall , and does not earn money .
You're right actually: curation is paywalled even without payment. Still, it's not enabled by default: https://imgur.com/lFY0hzp
Re: Can we all stop using Medium now?
#316Seems 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…
> I want them all to have consistent like/comment mechanics. As a reader, sorry, I just don’t care about your personal brand or platform. This is an important point. There is a small mental burden users face every time they see a new website and have to understand how it has been laid out and where things are and what they mean. Medium gives users "just the content" in the same familiar layout to streamline the proce…
> Medium gives users "just the content" in the same familiar layout to streamline the process.
minus the login prompts, the persistent top and bottom dickbars and the full-screen interstitial blocking the page if you've dared to open more than 5 links in a month.
Re: Can we all stop using Medium now?
#317Please re-enable the `-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch;` CSS style for your content. The article is a pain to read on Mobile Safari because bouncy/rubber-band scrolling is disabled.
Goes without saying, the consistent Medium experience is a good reason why we keep using it. Self made blogs like this that do annoying things that take away from content are foot guns.
The majority of non-Medium blogs are using Wordpress/Squarespsace themes of some kind and those usually are of the "responsive boilerplate" style that wouldn't have basic CSS issues like the site above.
Re: Can we all stop using Medium now?
#318Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you have a source for this "huge percentage"?
I wish I had stats, but I only have anecdotes, though a fair number of them. I’ve mentioned to 5 or 6 bloggers that their posts were behind a metered paywall and 0 of them knew or intended it. This person’s screenshot of the UX (as of Dec 2018) seems like it could be easy to misinterpret. It certainly doesn’t say anything like “Medium visitors are only able to read X free Medium articles. If your readers exceed X, th…
It's clearer now: https://imgur.com/lFY0hzp
Re: Can we all stop using Medium now?
#319So I have been putting together a way for people to more easily make their own blogging platform. It would kind of mimic a social media platform, but since everything is committed to a repository using the JAMstack it could easily be converted to a full website. Any feedback would be wonderful. https://your-media.netlify.com/post/make-your-own-media/
Everything is owned by the end user. This is only providing a recipe for people to use.
I will also mention that https://www.stackbit.com/ is doing basically the same thing but more from a “Make life easier for Website designers” perspective.
Re: Can we all stop using Medium now?
#320Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Maybe I am lazy but there really isn’t an easy and inexpensive way to market your blogs or apps. HN, Reddit, and other social networks?
I've had blog posts do well on Medium but sink like a stone on those platforms. It's a very different proposition submitting to medium and having it shown to people who are likely to be interested over a day, vs self-submitting to a site like HN or Reddit and watching it sink like a stone because the few people who are likely to be interested aren't looking at that particular moment. Not to mention the fact that if y…
Well, for Reddit, I know that tech subreddits really don't like it if you drop a link and don't provide any additional commentary in the post. This is doubly true if the link happens to be "medium.com" because Reddit is already full of downvoted posts submitted by content marketers.
If you aren't a regular poster on the sub that you're placing the link on, why would posters bother opening said link? You have to participate in the community as well, and that includes providing content in the form of Reddit posts as well, because Reddit users don't like clicking outbound links with no context.