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> I just don't get why people consider Medium to be so remarkable or innovative. It's just Blogger 2.0, in a prettier outfit. Agreed. I feel the same way about

> I just don't get why people consider Medium to be so remarkable or innovative. It's just Blogger 2.0, in a prettier outfit. Agreed. I feel the same way about Dropbox. You can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem.

brandnewlow 10y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
- minimaxir 10y ago
  Link to exact quote that the OP is attempting to satirize: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 Satire doesn't work if most people believe it.
nawitus 10y ago
Your analogy is flawed. There were and are plenty of other "create a blog with a few clicks that you don't have to host" services.
- gabrielizaias 10y ago
  Woosh! He's making a satire comment about when Dropbox was first introduced to HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
  - detaro 10y ago
    thus implying that the parent post made the same mistake when judging Medium, which nawitus (IMHO rightfully) thinks is a flawed comparison. No "Whoosh".
    - gabrielizaias 10y ago
      Fair enough.
- swsieber 10y ago
  There were - perhaps it's than just that. See this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13322075 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13322075 Namely "Medium makes it really easy to post something that looks good across devices etc., and has good sharing integration"
- rayalez 10y ago
  Well, maybe there's nothing wrong with being the best or the most popular one of them? What do people expect Medium to do, cure cancer? It's a blogging platform. A good one. Someone wanted to make it, and he built it, and now it's successful. Maybe it didn't revolutionize the way we make toasts, but it's a solid incremental improvement over the alternatives. So was facebook, so was iphone, so were most of the other things people have made.
  - zokier 10y ago
    With statements such as "To build a platform that defined a new model for media on the internet." it is not completely unreasonable to expect bit more than more of the same
awj 10y ago
> You can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. ...are you serious? Yes, I could do all of those things, then I'd have a terrible Dropbox-like clone that only I can use. And I'd be responsible for running it. Human society is literally built on the idea of us not needing to do things that we could do for ourselves. Most of the things you can do "for free", or even "for cheap", are only on that value spectrum if your time is worthless.
- detaro 10y ago
  It's a reference to a HN comment saying that when Dropbox was first presented on HN.
  - awj 10y ago
    Ahh, gotcha. That's what I get for not stopping by very often...
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JustSomeNobody 10y ago
I can't tell, but I feel like you're being sarcastic.
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brandnewlow 10y ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

minimaxir 10y ago
Link to exact quote that the OP is attempting to satirize: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 Satire doesn't work if most people believe it.

nawitus 10y ago

Your analogy is flawed. There were and are plenty of other "create a blog with a few clicks that you don't have to host" services.

gabrielizaias 10y ago
Woosh! He's making a satire comment about when Dropbox was first introduced to HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
- detaro 10y ago
  thus implying that the parent post made the same mistake when judging Medium, which nawitus (IMHO rightfully) thinks is a flawed comparison. No "Whoosh".
  - gabrielizaias 10y ago
    Fair enough.
swsieber 10y ago
There were - perhaps it's than just that. See this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13322075 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13322075 Namely "Medium makes it really easy to post something that looks good across devices etc., and has good sharing integration"
rayalez 10y ago
Well, maybe there's nothing wrong with being the best or the most popular one of them? What do people expect Medium to do, cure cancer? It's a blogging platform. A good one. Someone wanted to make it, and he built it, and now it's successful. Maybe it didn't revolutionize the way we make toasts, but it's a solid incremental improvement over the alternatives. So was facebook, so was iphone, so were most of the other things people have made.
- zokier 10y ago
  With statements such as "To build a platform that defined a new model for media on the internet." it is not completely unreasonable to expect bit more than more of the same

awj 10y ago

> You can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. ...are you serious? Yes, I could do all of those things, then I'd have a terrible Dropbox-like clone that only I can use. And I'd be responsible for running it. Human society is literally built on the idea of us not needing to do things that we could do for ourselves. Most of the things you can do "for free", or even "for cheap", are only on that value spectrum if your time is worthless.

detaro 10y ago
It's a reference to a HN comment saying that when Dropbox was first presented on HN.
- awj 10y ago
  Ahh, gotcha. That's what I get for not stopping by very often...

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JustSomeNobody 10y ago

I can't tell, but I feel like you're being sarcastic.

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