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Isn't Medium struggling in its own ways, cutting costs & laying people off? If it was a Twitter product, I imagine the stockholders would want it shut down, see

Isn't Medium struggling in its own ways, cutting costs & laying people off? If it was a Twitter product, I imagine the stockholders would want it shut down, seeing it as a distraction to the main Twitter product.

CM30 9y ago
Yeah, Medium's having trouble finding a good business model itself: https://blog.medium.com/renewing-mediums-focus-98f374a960be https://blog.medium.com/renewing-mediums-focus-98f374a960be It's got the same general issues as Twitter has. No clear business model, a more limited audience than the creators of the service want it to have and a severe with too much noise and hostility (especially when you go away from recommended articles to random ones).
crispytx 9y ago
I think Medium's financial problem is that they aren't charging for their services. My blog is hosted by Medium at my own custom domain, and the only thing they charged me for was the SSL certificate. They ought to charge for that like Wordpress.com does. But yeah, Medium has some problems and a long way to go, but it has so much potential. One of their problems in my opinion is that most of the articles that show up in your feed at Medium.com have a BuzzFeed like quality to them. They should integrate some sort of RSS functionality into the feed, and start adding all of the best blogs, regardless of whether or not they happen to be hosted on Medium. But that's just what I would do, not that anyone cares ;) For example, if you follow the "startups" tag on Medium, you ought to get cool stuff in your feed like IndieHackers. They could include IndieHackers and great blogs like it in their feed, and if people happen to click on those stories, they could just redirect people to those sites. So it would be sort of like Reddit, but instead of people submitting links, the editors at Medium would currate what gets added from other sites, and Medium.com users could obviously add blogs to their own personal feeds via RSS.

CM30 9y ago

Yeah, Medium's having trouble finding a good business model itself: https://blog.medium.com/renewing-mediums-focus-98f374a960be https://blog.medium.com/renewing-mediums-focus-98f374a960be It's got the same general issues as Twitter has. No clear business model, a more limited audience than the creators of the service want it to have and a severe with too much noise and hostility (especially when you go away from recommended articles to random ones).

crispytx 9y ago

I think Medium's financial problem is that they aren't charging for their services. My blog is hosted by Medium at my own custom domain, and the only thing they charged me for was the SSL certificate. They ought to charge for that like Wordpress.com does. But yeah, Medium has some problems and a long way to go, but it has so much potential. One of their problems in my opinion is that most of the articles that show up in your feed at Medium.com have a BuzzFeed like quality to them. They should integrate some sort of RSS functionality into the feed, and start adding all of the best blogs, regardless of whether or not they happen to be hosted on Medium. But that's just what I would do, not that anyone cares ;) For example, if you follow the "startups" tag on Medium, you ought to get cool stuff in your feed like IndieHackers. They could include IndieHackers and great blogs like it in their feed, and if people happen to click on those stories, they could just redirect people to those sites. So it would be sort of like Reddit, but instead of people submitting links, the editors at Medium would currate what gets added from other sites, and Medium.com users could obviously add blogs to their own personal feeds via RSS.