I blogged political stuff in the Tea Party days. Had a blast. After a couple years, I realized it was pissing in the wind, and just do snark on Xitter now.
What happened to blogs
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A platform which doesn't encourage me to subscribe with popups, or stop me from reading without logging in.
Logging in is actually really easy. It's by email and doesn't use a password. Also, Medium uses subscriptions rather than ads to fund itself. I would rather have a popup or two than a shitty ad-infested website.
Ease of login is irrelevant.
They built a closed ecosystem on the back of a fundamentally open form of content.
Re: What happened to blogs
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
Logging in is actually really easy. It's by email and doesn't use a password. Also, Medium uses subscriptions rather than ads to fund itself. I would rather have a popup or two than a shitty ad-infested website.
Ease of login is irrelevant. They built a closed ecosystem on the back of a fundamentally open form of content.
You can choose whether you want your post to be exclusive to medium members or not.
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