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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 wh
by dberg 11y ago
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.
- rglover 11y agoI'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.
- dberg 11y agoI guess that makes sense, but there are certainly other platforms with an "audience", like Tumblr, etc?
- volaski 11y agoMedium started out with Twitter sign in, which means their early users were all Twitter "influencers". The way I look at it, it's a blogging wrapper layer built around Twitter social graph. When you sign in with your Twitter account you automatically follow everyone you follow on Twitter on Medium.
- hboon 11y agoRead what 37Signals/Basecamp who has spent 15 years building their (huge) audience on their own site says: https://m.signalvnoise.com/signal-v-noise-moves-to-medium-c8083ce19686#.lka3ttxc8 https://m.signalvnoise.com/signal-v-noise-moves-to-medium-c8... I think the number 1 reason is reach.
- adajos 11y agoReach is exactly right. Also good for audience building. That said, I agree with most of the complaints about Medium as well.
- pcurve 11y agoThey remained 'elitist' for just the right amount of time, making people grave for the privilege to sign up. Svtble pulled the same stunt. But medium timed things right and opened up to masses sooner. People signed up in droves. 'svtble' stayed elitist for many more months, but were medium forced their hands, but it was already too late.
- gibrown 11y agoIt's not dominant, it's apparently perceived that way within tech circles because they focus on tech. There's not a good apples to apples comparison of public data, but for instance... Medium 20k authors per week: http://recode.net/2015/09/28/ev-williams-medium-raises-57-million-for-the-best-stories-and-ideas-on-the-internet/ http://recode.net/2015/09/28/ev-williams-medium-raises-57-mi... WordPress.com average 12.7m posts per week: https://en.blog.wordpress.com/2016/01/06/the-2015-wordpress-com-year-in-review/ https://en.blog.wordpress.com/2016/01/06/the-2015-wordpress-...