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What are the alternatives to Medium?
by gkya 9y ago
What are the alternatives to Medium?
- CM30 9y agoStatic website generators and GitHub pages, WordPress.com, Blogger, typical hosting sites. I think some forums and Reddit style link aggregators have places for longform content too. I was considering my own direct alternative to the site, but at the moment I have other things to work on.
- gkya 9y agoAFAIK Medium's selling point is the network, i.e. the easy access to potential followers. My website is static via org-publish, but nobody knows it and if I wanted to popularise it I'd have to do many things. With these networks+hosting services like Medium and Tumblr all you have to do is put some tags. I was asking for this sort of alternatives.
- CM30 9y agoThen I'll say that I'm working on something similar, it's just not ready at the moment. I'm retooling my gaming site into a gaming alternative to Medium and the likes, and will hopefully launch a general version for all subjects at a later date.
- dredmorbius 9y agoMy short list would be a self-hosted blog (static site), Reddit (what I'm actually using), Wordpress. Github has some blogging options that I've been meaning to look at, and might also be an option. I've been looking for a better solution, and Medium have pretty much elected themselves out of consideration with their recent directions, styling and otherwise. No confidence.
- shopkins 9y agoOP mentions a similar platform he made, Write.as, in the README. It doesn't do as much as Medium (I think that's on purpose) but they have a small Medium-like network for authors there [0]. I've been on it for over a year [1] and really enjoying the simplicity myself. [0] https://read.write.as https://read.write.as [1] https://shopkins.writeas.com https://shopkins.writeas.com