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Re: Medium raises $25 million

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Post by yen223 »

ThomPete wrote: post #70
mdwrigh2 wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Medium sends out an e-mail with hand selected stories every week though and I find myself reading a couple quite often though. That's much less likely to happen with your own blog.

The real question you need to ask yourself though is, how likely are you to get your story in the email?

As long as

    P(story read by audience|written in Medium) > P(story read by audience|written in self-hosted blog)
Medium will continue to be a better choice.

Re: Medium raises $25 million

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Post by yen223 »

dasil003 wrote: post #35
untog wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"The HN crowd" has become an online meme for man-child Silicon Valley programmers. So I'd say there is at least a danger of that overflowing to perceptions of YC - just not for anyone YC probably cares about.

Really? My perception is that "the HN crowd" is known for being pedantic know-it-alls criticizing every minute detail of anything. "Man-child" seems much more Slashdot/Reddit/Digg/4chan plus the rest of the internet.

I like the irony of a person talking about pedantic know-it-alls, via a comment that dissects the exact meaning of the phrase "the HN crowd".

Re: Medium raises $25 million

#73

Post by yen223 »

dopamean wrote: post #60
misiti3780 wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

i understand that, but ostracizing a group of people that are probably some of their core users right now (tech community) seems stupid - adding the feature would be very easy

"Ostracizing" is a pretty strong word here.

"It's like apartheid, but with programmers."

Re: Medium raises $25 million

#75

Post by primitivesuave »

650REDHAIR wrote: post #68
mesozoic wrote: post #61

Most of the posts on medium are so poorly written or blatantly false I just avoid the whole domain now. So in my eyes they have a lot of work to do to fix their branding.

I'm with you on this. In my eyes it's the "Experts Exchange" of our time.

At least they made the good decision of avoiding a domain name containing a hidden sexual innuendo.

Re: Medium raises $25 million

#76

Post by kevando »

droob wrote: post #47
misiti3780 wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

i understand that, but ostracizing a group of people that are probably some of their core users right now (tech community) seems stupid - adding the feature would be very easy

You are a programmer that just said "adding the feature would be very easy."

Jokes for the 1%

Re: Medium raises $25 million

#77

Post by angersock »

yen223 wrote: post #72
dasil003 wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Really? My perception is that "the HN crowd" is known for being pedantic know-it-alls criticizing every minute detail of anything. "Man-child" seems much more Slashdot/Reddit/Digg/4chan plus the rest of the internet.

I like the irony of a person talking about pedantic know-it-alls, via a comment that dissects the exact meaning of the phrase "the HN crowd".

It's not irony--it's merely illustrating the point.

Re: Medium raises $25 million

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Post by angersock »

pseut wrote: post #42
choarham wrote: post #29

So, you can type text into a box and people can comment on it. And it has a nice font. My startup idea is that we sell chairs, but the chairs are nicer than some other chairs and they say 'chair' on them. Can I get $25 million too?

So... you're saying that selling nice chairs is an obviously bad business model?

It's my understanding that it is hard to find VCs who want to fund chairities.

Re: Medium raises $25 million

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Post by angersock »

uloweb wrote: post #39
choarham wrote: post #29

So, you can type text into a box and people can comment on it. And it has a nice font. My startup idea is that we sell chairs, but the chairs are nicer than some other chairs and they say 'chair' on them. Can I get $25 million too?

Yes, but only if you already have the successful experience with, for example, sofas.

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Re: Medium raises $25 million

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Post by nl »

steveklabnik wrote: post #32
state wrote: post #3

I guess this is the direct counter-argument to my comment in the thread about Svtle. Is it true that people actually don't care about keeping ownership over their content? I find it so strange that these services which are pitched directly at people who consider themselves to be brilliant also become the archive for your stuff. It just seems like a conflict of interest when, yes, what exactly is their game plan?

> Is it true that people actually don't care about keeping ownership over their content? Sometimes, it can be good for things. Take parody, for instance. My favorite Medium collection is "CSS Perverts"[1], which is basically really silly, fake articles about programming stuff. Sample article: "How Node.js will replace JavaScript." Because it's on Medium, people are more willing to believe that Jenn is serious, and so…

"A Call For Web Developers To Deprecate Their CSS"[1] is most awesome thing I've read this year.

California Style Sheets are a standard, meaning there is a group of people at W3Schools who come up with new properties (like border-radius and box-shadow) every year. For some time, they did not know that the Node group at W3Schools was coming up with ways to update the styling of a page without CSS. Recently, both groups finally met and realized the overlap in functionality and therefore opened a spec to deprecate CSS entirely. That spec became HTML5. The rest of the story is present day. More and more developers are using HTML5, but do not realize the redundancy of using CSS.

[1] https://medium.com/cool-code-pal/1f6430781393

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