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No. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
In support of betteridge, I still keep a personal blog on a vanity domain, and you can pry it out of my cold dead hands.
it costs a bit more than $1 a month to run it.
honest question, how did Medium become so dominant for all blog posting so quickly ? The design is no doubt beautiful but there is nothing special. Curious why so many bloggers magically decided to publish there all of a sudden. I see tons of tech posts there now.
honest question, how did Medium become so dominant for all blog posting so quickly ? The design is no doubt beautiful but there is nothing special. Curious why so many bloggers magically decided to publish there all of a sudden. I see tons of tech posts there now.
I've been wondering this, too, and design/ease-of-use aside, the biggest argument I've heard (and observed) is the network effect. Even trivial Medium posts get at least a handful of favorites and 1-2 comments. A built-in audience is likely an easy sell for the majority of folks.
A lot of this is unncessary, I could just be using css. I like that there's not all this asset-flow magic built out, just simple npm with bash cli. Unix philosophy and very little heavy lifting. I think there's still hope.
Now if we can just teach casual users git...
[0]https://gohugo.io/ [1]http://www.blevesearch.com/news/Site-Search/ [2]https://tlvince.com/static-commenting
My problem with Medium is that it lends this amazing aura of credibility to everything that is published on it. I think they've hit on the design equivalent of the brown note (of South Park fame) which makes readers mentally incontinent vis-a-vis the credibility of the source of the actual text... Or maybe it's just me?
I've only ever accessed it via hackernews links and they were all to very substantial and well written articles.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Static site generators are not a good answer for non-engineers, especially if customizations are necessary." Could be. Content and templates could be hosted on S3. Unfortunately I haven't found a good admin GUI for a static site generator yet. I use Jekyll myself and as a developer that's great, not something I would recommend to normal users though. Which is a shame because most users (or small businesses) don't re…
I recently launched Static Website Manager ( https://www.staticwebsitemanager.com ) which aims bring static sites to a non-technical market. Would love to chat more if you have questions.
honest question, how did Medium become so dominant for all blog posting so quickly ? The design is no doubt beautiful but there is nothing special. Curious why so many bloggers magically decided to publish there all of a sudden. I see tons of tech posts there now.
https://m.signalvnoise.com/signal-v-noise-moves-to-medium-c8...
I think the number 1 reason is reach.
I use and highly recommend hexo.io with it's S3 deployment plugin. It's as good as Jekyll but easier to modify and theme if you come from a web dev background as it's written in NodeJS rather than Ruby.
What's the generation speed like with Hexo? I'm using Hugo but I'm not really enjoying Go templates so I'm curious as to how Hexo performs.
I recently converted my wordpress blog to hexo and blogged about it, if you're interested: