"Has your content lasted 16 years" As a matter of fact, yes. I've been blogging exactly that long too. Some of that content has gone through four or five sof

"Has your content lasted 16 years" As a matter of fact, yes. I've been blogging exactly that long too. Some of that content has gone through four or five software platforms, and twice that many physical hosts, and it's just as readable as ever. You do bring up a good point, though. The reason I've been able to make all those transitions has been because I retained complete control over the data even at the lowest level throughout. I wouldn't have that with Medium. I'd be at least somewhat at their mercy to keep my posts accessible and/or exportable. That's the argument Dave should have made. Maybe he considered it too obvious to state, but the fact that he didn't make it explicit is what turns a possibly-good rant into an incoherent mess.