I'm concerned with the move that FreeCodeCamp just pulled by leaving Medium
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Re: I'm concerned with the move that FreeCodeCamp just pulled by leaving Medium
#2anyone know why on earth Medium is being intentionally shit?
Re: I'm concerned with the move that FreeCodeCamp just pulled by leaving Medium
#3"Publications on Medium are bound by the Medium Terms of Service, and they have no right to your content that you do not explicitly grant them. That includes exporting, copying, or reposting your content to any website that is not Medium.com"
"You own the rights to the content you create and post on Medium"
Wait what? If it's my content and I own the rights, I can repost it wherever I wish.
Re: I'm concerned with the move that FreeCodeCamp just pulled by leaving Medium
#4"Publications on Medium are bound by the Medium Terms of Service, and they have no right to your content that you do not explicitly grant them. That includes exporting, copying, or reposting your content to any website that is not Medium.com" "You own the rights to the content you create and post on Medium" Wait what? If it's my content and I own the rights, I can repost it wherever I wish.
Yes, you can post it wherever you wish. A third party publication on Medium, however, cannot do so without your consent.
Re: I'm concerned with the move that FreeCodeCamp just pulled by leaving Medium
#5"Publications on Medium are bound by the Medium Terms of Service, and they have no right to your content that you do not explicitly grant them. That includes exporting, copying, or reposting your content to any website that is not Medium.com" "You own the rights to the content you create and post on Medium" Wait what? If it's my content and I own the rights, I can repost it wherever I wish.
The authors of the posts probably own the rights. FreeCodeCamp doesn't (as far as I can tell).
Re: I'm concerned with the move that FreeCodeCamp just pulled by leaving Medium
#6"Publications on Medium are bound by the Medium Terms of Service, and they have no right to your content that you do not explicitly grant them. That includes exporting, copying, or reposting your content to any website that is not Medium.com" "You own the rights to the content you create and post on Medium" Wait what? If it's my content and I own the rights, I can repost it wherever I wish.
Yes, you can post it wherever you wish. A third party publication on Medium, however, cannot do so without your consent.
It might help to explain the Medium third party publication system, as it wouldn’t exactly be clear to people who haven’t experienced it before.
Re: I'm concerned with the move that FreeCodeCamp just pulled by leaving Medium
#7"Publications on Medium are bound by the Medium Terms of Service, and they have no right to your content that you do not explicitly grant them. That includes exporting, copying, or reposting your content to any website that is not Medium.com" "You own the rights to the content you create and post on Medium" Wait what? If it's my content and I own the rights, I can repost it wherever I wish.
The publications have no right of export of content they display that you posted yourself, unless you declared otherwise to the publication.
If you, the same legal entity, are both poster and republisher, then Medium’s statement is both true and irrelevant to you, as you retain the right of export that they guarantee is the poster’s to exercise.
Re: I'm concerned with the move that FreeCodeCamp just pulled by leaving Medium
#8On an unrelated note, I really wish that Medium hadn't gone to a pay-after-three model like everyone else- not only can I not afford it, it feels counter-intuitive. To me, Medium is a place where budding bloggers, industry professionals, etc. can get a start or work on building up and out their careers and influence- and it doesn't make sense to say "you have to spend money to give these people attention", especially when I can that same blog post somewhere else. Medium, the company, doesn't seem to produce much content, and so it seems unfair for them to restrict the flow to the creators themselves.
Re: I'm concerned with the move that FreeCodeCamp just pulled by leaving Medium
#9On an unrelated note, I really wish that Medium hadn't gone to a pay-after-three model like everyone else- not only can I not afford it, it feels counter-intuitive. To me, Medium is a place where budding bloggers, industry professionals, etc. can get a start or work on building up and out their careers and influence - and it doesn't make sense to say "you have to spend money to give these people attention", especiall…
Yes, Medium pulled a bait and switch which lead to a lot of rightfully unhappy customers.
It was this behavior which led to publications like Hackernoon and FreeCodeCamp to begin leaving.
Ultimately the reasons for wanting to leave make a lot of sense. Doing it _in this way_ is the troubling part.
Re: I'm concerned with the move that FreeCodeCamp just pulled by leaving Medium
#10On an unrelated note, I really wish that Medium hadn't gone to a pay-after-three model like everyone else- not only can I not afford it, it feels counter-intuitive. To me, Medium is a place where budding bloggers, industry professionals, etc. can get a start or work on building up and out their careers and influence - and it doesn't make sense to say "you have to spend money to give these people attention", especiall…
Budding bloggers can just stay outside the pay wall, which applies only to articles that the author chooses to monetize.