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And why does everything need to be on medium now? What happened with blogs? What happens when medium closes down with all that content? Does writing on medium.

And why does everything need to be on medium now? What happened with blogs? What happens when medium closes down with all that content? Does writing on medium.com make you more sophisticated? I don't understand this craziness.

dispose13432 10y ago
Does it help with getting people to find your content?
Buge 10y ago
Blogs close down too. I would guess the median medium article will last longer than the median blog article.
- loup-vaillant 10y ago
  No they don't —unless their author let it. My blog won't shut down even if my provider does. I'll just move it somewhere else. Of course, if you're posting on blogpost or such, it is not your blog —it's Alphabet's. If it were your personal blog, you wouldn't have put this "signal inappropriate content" button, would you?
  - Buge 10y ago
    I mean that domain names expire. I just had some of mine expire (which I am sure I had set to auto renew). If an author is willing to move their content if their provider shuts down, that is not much different than migrating their content if medium shuts down.
    - loup-vaillant 10y ago
      Well, domain name expiration is a problem. If you pay attention though, no domain name will ever expire —under current DNS rules at least. My own domain name is in .fr, and if it expires I have a chance to renew it before someone else is allowed to take it. There's a few weeks of delay, but truly losing a .fr name requires the owner to be really negligent. I believe .com names are more easily lost, though.
omash 10y ago
I think it gets you views.
ghaff 10y ago
It gets incremental views. It looks attractive. I suspect that some people (incorrectly) think a piece has more authority if it's on Medium or another related publishing platform than if it's on a personal blog. Personally, I cross-post to Medium if I write something that might be of general professional interest. The private notes feature is useful if an editor is doing a copyedit pass and I also think Medium works better if a piece is going to be linked as part of a newsletter or whatever. Finally, if someone only writes posts once in a while, it may make more sense for them to use Medium than maintain their own blog.

dispose13432 10y ago

Does it help with getting people to find your content?

Buge 10y ago

Blogs close down too. I would guess the median medium article will last longer than the median blog article.

loup-vaillant 10y ago
No they don't —unless their author let it. My blog won't shut down even if my provider does. I'll just move it somewhere else. Of course, if you're posting on blogpost or such, it is not your blog —it's Alphabet's. If it were your personal blog, you wouldn't have put this "signal inappropriate content" button, would you?
- Buge 10y ago
  I mean that domain names expire. I just had some of mine expire (which I am sure I had set to auto renew). If an author is willing to move their content if their provider shuts down, that is not much different than migrating their content if medium shuts down.
  - loup-vaillant 10y ago
    Well, domain name expiration is a problem. If you pay attention though, no domain name will ever expire —under current DNS rules at least. My own domain name is in .fr, and if it expires I have a chance to renew it before someone else is allowed to take it. There's a few weeks of delay, but truly losing a .fr name requires the owner to be really negligent. I believe .com names are more easily lost, though.

omash 10y ago

I think it gets you views.

ghaff 10y ago

It gets incremental views. It looks attractive. I suspect that some people (incorrectly) think a piece has more authority if it's on Medium or another related publishing platform than if it's on a personal blog. Personally, I cross-post to Medium if I write something that might be of general professional interest. The private notes feature is useful if an editor is doing a copyedit pass and I also think Medium works better if a piece is going to be linked as part of a newsletter or whatever. Finally, if someone only writes posts once in a while, it may make more sense for them to use Medium than maintain their own blog.