6 ms·
When I see a nice Headline on HN: "Oh cool, I would love to read that", then I look at the domain: "Oh it's on medium. Never mind then." I'd never pay for that
by snackai 10y ago
When I see a nice Headline on HN: "Oh cool, I would love to read that", then I look at the domain: "Oh it's on medium. Never mind then." I'd never pay for that shit show.
- jitix 10y agoThats a bit hyperbolic. There are some good articles on Medium. And its just "some".
- M_Grey 10y agoThere are some good articles, but they exist in a sea of noise. I don't know about you, but I come to places like HN because that noise is undesirable.
- good_vibes 10y agoI'm here for the same exact reason. I wonder why Medium attracts that kind of content? Why are people into reading and sharing that kind of stuff? I wonder how much of media metrics are real and meaningful vs. how much of it is forgotten a day later and meaningless after that?
- yoodenvranx 10y ago> then I look at the domain: "Oh it's on medium. Never mind then." In some cases (like medium.com) HN should not only show the URL behind the link (e.g. 'medium.com') but also the user/author (e.g. 'medium.com/@randomuser').
- eloisant 10y agoIt's a blogging platform. Why posts hosted there should be any less interesting than posts hosted on any other platform?
- snackai 10y agoFor some odd reason medium attracts the worst content. All those super optimistic shallow nonsense. Urgh.
- good_vibes 10y agoWhy do you think that is? Is it something about our times, people in general, or having nothing better to say?
- sverige 10y agoThere's an entire subculture of fake "you can do anything" motivational stuff on the web. The purveyors are direct descendants of Tony Robbins and Dale Carnegie and whoever was selling that stuff before him.
- hdra 10y agoI don't think thats necessarily true, but I also think that Medium has that kind of connotation for me. I think the lack of branding on Medium sites has something to do with it. People ended up lumping everything as "Medium articles", from spammy "growth-hacking" articles to well-researched, well written investigative article.
- kowdermeister 10y ago> some odd reason Let me place my bet: Professional look (design, typography) + Medium brand + very little effort to publish + chance to get featured if it attracts clicks.
- bachmeier 10y agoYep. Although I've read a few good posts on Medium, most of the content feels like something you'd find in popular business books. The design of the site seems to discourage anything with a technical/academic/deep thinking side. I've been wanting to post there, but I don't have anything to say that would be a good fit.
- artursapek 10y ago
- fhoffa 10y agoFacts: Hacker News gets a ton of articles posted from Medium, but very few of them get to the front page. Last time I measured there had been 4,108 posts from medium.com in 2017 (largest source of news for HN), but less than 3% of them got some upvote traction. So you seem to be sharing a similar sentiment towards Medium than the rest of the HN readers. (Even posting tweets to HN gets them double the attention than a random Medium post) https://medium.com/@hoffa/hacker-news-on-bigquery-now-with-daily-updates-so-what-are-the-top-domains-963d3c68b2e2 https://medium.com/@hoffa/hacker-news-on-bigquery-now-with-d...
- deleted 10y ago[deleted]
- user5994461 10y agoCan you compare to the stats for wordpress?
- brianwawok 10y agoCan't get that out of the URLs, would need to actually crawl the stories.
- user5994461 10y agoThey can both be redirecting to a custom domain. Actually, I think that if you accounted only for the blog on medium.com you are ignoring all the medium blogs on custom domains, which probably have better content than the average.
- lathiat 10y agoi've noticed people seem to use medium but hosted on their own domain? i suspect probably quite a few more front pages if you include that.
- user5994461 10y agoAgree. I've done the same for a year and a half.