One of the worst things about Medium is the commenting section. I still have no idea how it works, the UX is terrible.
Medium is a poor choice for blogging
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#352One of the worst things about Medium is the commenting section. I still have no idea how it works, the UX is terrible.
Ditto. Absolutely dreadful. It's like they sort of tacked it on without much thought of how to do it.
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#353Switching to LinkedIn these days is a better value proposition considering that your professional network is right there.
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#354> Another interesting point is that they are really eager to block embeds that do not respect Do Not Track header but do not respect DNT themselves. Yes, Medium will collect your profile even if you are not a registered user and explicitly ask them not to do it.
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tbh, often when I get interrupted by the "sorry to interrupt you" I just close the tab. and if I'm on mobile and link says "medium" I don't even bother to click. but that's me.
You are not alone. I read Medium articles only when they are posted on HN or someone I follow closely shares a link. Otherwise I just ignore Medium articles. Maybe it is me but most of the Medium articles I stumble upon are pure garbage.
> Maybe it is me but most of the Medium articles I stumble upon are pure garbage.
It's not just you, a lot of them are.
Look at how many are just "python deep learning tutorial" recycled for the millionth time, but with some fundamental misunderstanding or shortcut, or they're just lifted almost verbatim from the starter example or the documentation with nothing actually meaningful added. Often there's lots of "here's how to do x in y" that somehow manages to not understand good practices at all.
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#356Most of the time when I see a Medium link I refuse to read it. The website is awful. The comment system/discussions are awful. The content is mostly awful. Why should I listen/read from some random on Medium? What is your background? How are you an expert that I should read and take advice from? It seems like a bunch of random people trying to make it blogging again, like in the first Dotcom bubble. Medium feels like Twitter long reads. Maybe it's just me though.
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Medium also liberates writers from social stuff. It has claps, comments, etc, but also when you share a Medium article on Twitter or Facebook you have all the meta-tags to make it look good. Also, no infrastructure headaches either.
Medium comments are up there with the worst comment implementation I've ever seen
UX wise I agree. But, I think those are better than having comments on your own blog.
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> I only read his post because it's on HN. Well, yeah, but a post on a self-hosted blog can be posted to HN just as easily as a post on Medium can. And it's not like having "(medium.com)" next to the submission is going to drive upvotes any more than having "(yourdomain.xyz)" would. (For me it actually has the opposite effect; there's so much empty "thought-leader" drivel posted at Medium that seeing that domain next…
> there's so much empty "thought-leader" drivel posted at Medium I observe, Medium posts are now the equivalent of most TED talks. Most are useless but the rare good ones make it hard to write the platform off as a self-promotional junk delivery mechanism.
>> Most are useless but the rare good ones make it hard to write the platform off
Exactly, the platform isn't an indicator of quality. In the long term, how could such a platform be?
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Yup. These days most people have fast connections. Hosting your personal website from your home should be the default. Huge amount of storage, no changing terms of service, no perverse profit incentives, no third party doctorine problems, no deplatforming problems, and it cuts the gordian knot of deciding what is allowed and what isn't. Then people can associate however they want.
> Hosting your personal website from your home should be the default. Very few ISPs will hand you a static IP necessary for this to work.
You don't need a static IP. I've been doing it for 20 years without one. It's very simple to use a ddns service, or, just set it manually every couple months to a year when it changes. It's certainly no reason to not host servers from home.
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#360I just use Github Gists. I've posted over 500 articles onto Github Gists. It's the best blogging system in the world imo. It is git backed, renders ipynb and other fancy formats, has comments and stars and allows forking. Also I use giscus to notify me of comments. The search system can use some UI help though. But hashtags help.