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It seems like the other top post for today ("Show HN: Switch from Medium to your own blog in a few minutes" [1] [2]) comes at a perfect time now. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20060549 [2] https://github.com/mathieudutour/medium-to-own-blog
Or even git(lab/hub)? if too lazy to set up your own.
Got no skin in the game, but why all this hate for medium? Sounds like they just don't want to do ads?
If you can't read the article, can you at least read the headline?
Please delete this post. This is a private email I sent to the author. It was not intended to be shared on Twitter. We just want to move on and focus on the future.
Genuinely curious though, why try to sweep under the rug the sketchy tactics Medium tried to pull here? I think this should be a good warning for others. You can move on, and focus on the future but still reflect and share the past. They are not exclusive, in my opinion.
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I don't think Medium has fully grasped that people read most content because they are bored, not because they really care about the content; thus when you put the content behind a paywall, most people will just go find other ways to amuse their bored brains on the internet. Content on the internet is usually so shallow it's bordering near worthless; lots of people just repeating other people over and over. When it co…
Facebook hasn't figured this out with in-video ads. I don't care that much about how Tasty makes some baked good enough to sit through a 15-second ad to see the remainder of the video.
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If you can't read the article, can you at least read the headline?
I am curious what “pressured” means. A threat? A shakedown? Or a polite email? The headline doesn’t really make it clear and the “article” is deleted.
From the thread, the email author says: > This email was intended only for Oleg and a few of our other authors. I have messaged him asking to delete it. We are focused on the future and want to move on from this.
Is that because they really want to move on or is it because the email doesn't tell the whole story? Curious to hear Medium's response.
What is worse is that there is a negative selection among those who want to earn from their writing - those who really know writing try to get into real journalism and the Medium authors are mostly those who try to earn money. That is not to say that there are no good writers, just last week I have eventually paid the Medium membership only because one author, but I am disappointed about the whole package. I presume there is better stuff written by the fist type of authors who write because they want to say something - but they are not recommended by Medium because they don't want the paywall. So being recommended is mostly a negative sign - it is often even written quite well - but with no depth.
I really wish Medium all the best - because the traditional media are failing and we as society, we have to find a way to support journalists. But the Medium experiment is probably failed one.
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As I understood it, the request was from the founder of FCC who presumably doesn't want the drama. I get his concern, but as someone uninvolved in FCC but who does read Medium I'm glad to see this sort of thing out in the open.
I get his concern as well, but at the same time... why would ANYONE share something you might regret (like on this case) if the content is made public?