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I applaud that. Medium makes it far harder to get a glimpse of the actual source of the article. Take this post, for example, HN lists (baremetrics.com) as the

I applaud that. Medium makes it far harder to get a glimpse of the actual source of the article. Take this post, for example, HN lists (baremetrics.com) as the source. If it had been published on Medium it would have listed (medium.com) which is irrelevant.

Shpigford 9y ago
Exactly. Medium does what's best for Medium (which is reasonable). I want to do what's best for our business.
judge2020 9y ago
They stated in the article that they stopped pointing the custom domain blog.baremetrics.com to Medium, if they didn't do that and posted this on Medium then the domain would still show as baremetrics.com on HN.
- izuchukwu 9y ago
  While true at the time, Medium no longer offers custom domains at all. https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005579728-Custom-domains-on-Medium?mobile_site=true https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005579728-Custo...
  - mgiannopoulos 9y ago
    What on earth are they thinking??
  - misterbowfinger 9y ago
    Damn! Why did they stop?
  - jstanley 9y ago
    They possibly found that lots of people using a custom domain were switching away from them, and they wanted to make that harder.
  - crispytx 9y ago
    No shit??? I started my Medium blog last year and have a custom domain. Why do you suppose they are getting rid of their best feature? Who the hell is going to want to host their blog on someone else's domain??? WTF?
    - warrenm 9y ago
      >Who the hell is going to want to host their blog on someone else's domain You mean like all those folks who blog on Blogger.com addresses?
  - meesterdude 9y ago
    wow i had no idea they did this! this was one of the reasons Basecamp felt able to move over. Now, if you haven't done it already, you can't. It's all medium.com's content.
pmlnr 9y ago
> Medium makes it far harder to get a glimpse of the actual source of the article This is even more worse when it comes to pinterest and the source of the image. Seeing stuff like "image source: pinterest" in articles is disgusting.
- fenwick67 9y ago
  Even worse: "Source: Google Images"
- newbear 9y ago
  Twitter does this too , when I want the link of the gif I can't get it. So I end up with a link to the twitter post
- colmvp 9y ago
  Plus if you want to see the image from search, you'll often get an obtrusive pop-up asking you to sign up.
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Shpigford 9y ago

Exactly. Medium does what's best for Medium (which is reasonable). I want to do what's best for our business.

judge2020 9y ago

They stated in the article that they stopped pointing the custom domain blog.baremetrics.com to Medium, if they didn't do that and posted this on Medium then the domain would still show as baremetrics.com on HN.

izuchukwu 9y ago
While true at the time, Medium no longer offers custom domains at all. https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005579728-Custom-domains-on-Medium?mobile_site=true https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005579728-Custo...
- mgiannopoulos 9y ago
  What on earth are they thinking??
- misterbowfinger 9y ago
  Damn! Why did they stop?
- jstanley 9y ago
  They possibly found that lots of people using a custom domain were switching away from them, and they wanted to make that harder.
- crispytx 9y ago
  No shit??? I started my Medium blog last year and have a custom domain. Why do you suppose they are getting rid of their best feature? Who the hell is going to want to host their blog on someone else's domain??? WTF?
  - warrenm 9y ago
    >Who the hell is going to want to host their blog on someone else's domain You mean like all those folks who blog on Blogger.com addresses?
- meesterdude 9y ago
  wow i had no idea they did this! this was one of the reasons Basecamp felt able to move over. Now, if you haven't done it already, you can't. It's all medium.com's content.

pmlnr 9y ago

> Medium makes it far harder to get a glimpse of the actual source of the article This is even more worse when it comes to pinterest and the source of the image. Seeing stuff like "image source: pinterest" in articles is disgusting.

fenwick67 9y ago
Even worse: "Source: Google Images"
newbear 9y ago
Twitter does this too , when I want the link of the gif I can't get it. So I end up with a link to the twitter post
colmvp 9y ago
Plus if you want to see the image from search, you'll often get an obtrusive pop-up asking you to sign up.

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