Medium asks $5 a month for nothing
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Medium asks $5 a month for nothing
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Re: Medium asks $5 a month for nothing
#2I would pay a few bucks to have my articles proof read and for stylistic enhancements. How much this producer centric model would yield is another question...
Re: Medium asks $5 a month for nothing
#3When I see a nice Headline on HN: "Oh cool, I would love to read that", then I look at the domain: "Oh it's on medium. Never mind then." I'd never pay for that shit show.
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#4When I see a nice Headline on HN: "Oh cool, I would love to read that", then I look at the domain: "Oh it's on medium. Never mind then." I'd never pay for that shit show.
Thats a bit hyperbolic. There are some good articles on Medium. And its just "some".
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#5I might be wrong but it seems that it's a good example of the bubble that people have been talking about.
1. It's a blogging site. A nice one. But that has already been done many times over.
2. If they wanted to replace publishing houses then their first focus should have been to get quality people to write articles AND pay them well.
3. Failing (2) they should have made deals with the news beareaus and newspapers without good online presence to be their article backends.
I don't think creating a nice blogging website is very disruptive in this day and age.
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#6When I see a nice Headline on HN: "Oh cool, I would love to read that", then I look at the domain: "Oh it's on medium. Never mind then." I'd never pay for that shit show.
> then I look at the domain: "Oh it's on medium. Never mind then."
In some cases (like medium.com) HN should not only show the URL behind the link (e.g. 'medium.com') but also the user/author (e.g. 'medium.com/@randomuser').
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#7When I see a nice Headline on HN: "Oh cool, I would love to read that", then I look at the domain: "Oh it's on medium. Never mind then." I'd never pay for that shit show.
Thats a bit hyperbolic. There are some good articles on Medium. And its just "some".
There are some good articles, but they exist in a sea of noise. I don't know about you, but I come to places like HN because that noise is undesirable.
Re: Medium asks $5 a month for nothing
#8When I see a nice Headline on HN: "Oh cool, I would love to read that", then I look at the domain: "Oh it's on medium. Never mind then." I'd never pay for that shit show.
It's a blogging platform. Why posts hosted there should be any less interesting than posts hosted on any other platform?
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#9The problem is that they are trying to fix something which dont need fixing. Media is not broken, its exactly as good as it can be when so many people have access to writing whatever they want.
The search for a large scale business model in media is never going to turn anything out, its not the content thats valuable but distribution.
Re: Medium asks $5 a month for nothing
#10When I see a nice Headline on HN: "Oh cool, I would love to read that", then I look at the domain: "Oh it's on medium. Never mind then." I'd never pay for that shit show.
It's a blogging platform. Why posts hosted there should be any less interesting than posts hosted on any other platform?
For some odd reason medium attracts the worst content. All those super optimistic shallow nonsense. Urgh.