Fuck Medium

#1

Post by tiagoleifert » Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 2:48 PM UTC

Fuck Medium
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Re: Fuck Medium

#2

Post by Grustaf » Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 2:58 PM UTC

Is there some new rule on HN that headlines need to include the word "fuck"?

Re: Fuck Medium

#3

Post by swagonomixxx » Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 2:58 PM UTC

I agree wholeheartedly with the author. Not a lot of things irk me more than the Medium era of blogging. Aside from the shady practice of Medium itself, I feel like with it came the meme-infused blogs, which I personally dislike a lot. I don't mind diagrams, of course, but I feel like the memes are to pander to the "kids" of today (I'm not that old, but memes weren't until I was 21).

Re: Fuck Medium

#4

Post by baxtr » Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 2:59 PM UTC

This is the ultimate click-bait for me, because it resonates so badly.

Re: Fuck Medium

#5

Post by andrewtbham » Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 2:59 PM UTC

Medium is run by ev williams. He founded blogger and twitter. He is interviewed in Founders at Work. I actually paid for extra blogger features in the early 2000s during the .com bust.

It's hard to express how disappointed I am in medium. I have written several very popular articles and I don't have a subscription and can't read hardly anything on there. Also I found it confusing to tell if your article is behind a paywall. They pulled a major bait and switch.

Re: Fuck Medium

#6

Post by arbitrage » Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 3:00 PM UTC

Grustaf wrote: post #2

Is there some new rule on HN that headlines need to include the word "fuck"?

I too am finding that my patience is wearing thin with this new memetic style of headline writing.

We can do better, and often do, around here.

Re: Fuck Medium

#7

Post by toomuchredbull » Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 3:01 PM UTC

Must be a developer. Nothing is more annoying than searching for the answer to something and finding the answer on Medium. I had high hopes for Medium also but they have also earned my unending ire. Fuck Medium.

Re: Fuck Medium

#8

Post by jtbayly » Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 3:03 PM UTC

Grustaf wrote: post #2

Is there some new rule on HN that headlines need to include the word "fuck"?

If this article wasn’t so filled with profanity, I’d share it with others. Some good arguments against Medium are presented.

Re: Fuck Medium

#9

Post by nailer » Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 3:04 PM UTC

toomuchredbull wrote: post #7

Must be a developer. Nothing is more annoying than searching for the answer to something and finding the answer on Medium. I had high hopes for Medium also but they have also earned my unending ire. Fuck Medium.

Medium is the new Experts Exchange (seeming free content that's paywalled). Or the old Substack (good quality content and great typography).

Re: Fuck Medium

#10

Post by bpodgursky » Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 3:05 PM UTC

My bet is that Substack is going to eat Medium alive.

Medium can coast for a while on inertia, but the payment-first model of substack, for authors you actually care about, is just miles ahead.

Pretty sure the rest of the search-engine traffic will be able to coast on the fact that substack has a real revenue stream from day 1.