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1. Most people don't want to generate a static site. 2. Most people don't want to host a static site. 3. Most people don't know how to do either. 4. Most people
by mkohlmyr 11y ago
1. Most people don't want to generate a static site.
2. Most people don't want to host a static site.
3. Most people don't know how to do either.
4. Most people do want others to read what they write.
5. More people will visit your curator / aggregator of choice than your website.
That being said it would be kind of neat if they took on more of a wordpress strategy:
1. The blogging engine gets open sourced and is made self-hostable (in addition to hosted option)
2. They host an opt-in disqus-like widget for comments / likes.
3. The medium website did recommendation and curation for all blogs that use the widget.
4. They ran an opt-in ad-network for hosted and self-hosted alike.
- type0 11y agoHugo is great though, easy to use, its not more difficult than other software to use. Users are just afraid of command line tools. I don't think wordpress strategy would work for medium. The best they can do is to improve their algoritms so that people can get good suggestions on the things of their interest. Sort of like subject circles, marketing ppl get to see their shit, engineers get to see their and other nerds can have their own cirlejerk.