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Some people (like me) write programing blogs on medium because it's much easier to get an audience there then on your own domain. It has nothing to do with tech
by ageitgey 9y ago
Some people (like me) write programing blogs on medium because it's much easier to get an audience there then on your own domain. It has nothing to do with technical issues. Like it or not, often more people will discover and share medium articles than posts on a no-name domain.
- vit05 9y agoI think that is the main reason for most of the non-technical people too. Medium started as a great way to be discovered. They have a minimal style that makes people compare the text and content. Is something totally different from host a weblog.
- styfle 9y agoThis is precisely why I created a medium account-- because there is already an audience that is reading, liking, and commenting on articles. I tested this theory by cross posting articles to both my domain[0] and to Medium[1]. The Medium article has thousands of views in a month and my domain gets maybe 20 views a month. This is partly because "publishers" pick up articles on Medium which shows it to a new audience. [0]: https://www.ceriously.com/blog/post.php?id=2017-05-09-nodejs-promisify.md https://www.ceriously.com/blog/post.php?id=2017-05-09-nodejs... [1]: https://medium.com/front-end-hacking/promises-in-node-js-8-x-core-d6a8a93e85a2 https://medium.com/front-end-hacking/promises-in-node-js-8-x...
- technofiend 9y agoThat and there's every chance tight web filters will block a random domain; I can't read the linked article, for instance.