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I tried Medium about two years ago and had good viewership, across a dozen posts. It's a very nice platform to write and broadcast your ideas. Ultimately though

by mtw 10y ago

I tried Medium about two years ago and had good viewership, across a dozen posts. It's a very nice platform to write and broadcast your ideas. Ultimately though, there is no way that I would pay for Medium. I learnt a long time that whatever publishing medium you choose, it will most likely fold, after the buzz dies out. It's much better to host your own publications. I also don't believe they will get any business from already struggling companies. Anyone except Facebook/Google is struggling. However, I do like the Medium's overall design practises, as well as the social practices. I hope that in the worst-case scenario, the design and relevant tech will open sourced.

mgkimsal 10y ago
> It's much better to host your own publications. I also don't believe they will get any business from already struggling companies I've been mulling over some mix of the two ideas for some time now. I keep thinking it's been done or will be done soon, but I've not seen it (or... am I missing something). Basically, some form of aggregation/curation of individual blogs. The 'planet' aggregators had an initial vision of this, but they were 'read only'. It would be far more useful if I could engage with each individual blog from the main aggregation site. Authors keep control of their own content (including comments, probably), but are aggregated/federated out to larger networks, but visitors can engage with a variety of topics without having to go register/join each site. Has this been done and I'm just missing something? I'd probably pay a nominal fee for a service like that, assuming that a portion made it back to the sites I engaged with (reading or commenting or sharing or whatever). If medium was a collection of blog posts from existing blogs, and the comments were shared between medium and the host blogs, both ways, for example. Anyone doing that?
- nickrivadeneira 10y ago
  I think that problem is solved by something like Feedly. There's no integration of comments, but is a somewhat personally curated source of blogs, regardless of hosting platform.
  - mgkimsal 10y ago
    any feed reader is a curated set... the ability to interact with others in the content from a feed reader (a feed 'client', not just reader, may be what I'm talking about) is what's missing.

by mtw 10y ago

mgkimsal 10y ago

> It's much better to host your own publications. I also don't believe they will get any business from already struggling companies I've been mulling over some mix of the two ideas for some time now. I keep thinking it's been done or will be done soon, but I've not seen it (or... am I missing something). Basically, some form of aggregation/curation of individual blogs. The 'planet' aggregators had an initial vision of this, but they were 'read only'. It would be far more useful if I could engage with each individual blog from the main aggregation site. Authors keep control of their own content (including comments, probably), but are aggregated/federated out to larger networks, but visitors can engage with a variety of topics without having to go register/join each site. Has this been done and I'm just missing something? I'd probably pay a nominal fee for a service like that, assuming that a portion made it back to the sites I engaged with (reading or commenting or sharing or whatever). If medium was a collection of blog posts from existing blogs, and the comments were shared between medium and the host blogs, both ways, for example. Anyone doing that?

nickrivadeneira 10y ago
I think that problem is solved by something like Feedly. There's no integration of comments, but is a somewhat personally curated source of blogs, regardless of hosting platform.
- mgkimsal 10y ago
  any feed reader is a curated set... the ability to interact with others in the content from a feed reader (a feed 'client', not just reader, may be what I'm talking about) is what's missing.