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Why? I see the move from independent blogs to universal use of Medium for tech blogging as a step backwards.
by mcherm 9y ago
Why? I see the move from independent blogs to universal use of Medium for tech blogging as a step backwards.
- gaius 9y agoMedium is a step up from what he was using before, Google+
- zeveb 9y agoI'm gonna give a shoutout to POSSE[0]: Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere. Nothing wrong using Medium's infrastructure to serve one's articles, but the canonical version should always be under one's own control. [0] https://indieweb.org/POSSE https://indieweb.org/POSSE
- harlanji 9y agoThanks for this term, this is the model I'm using for a Vodcast for the past month or so... POSSE to RasPi for recording and syndication, serve edge-cache optimized segmented video content from CDN, RTMP to all the other networks. I'm mostly doing it to show that if it can be done for a Vodcast from a RasPi, it can be done for anything and inspire my artist friends (and have a platform for my creations as artist0 :). POSSE all the things.
- mcherm 9y agoOkay, I really like that concept and having a name for it makes it easier to discuss and advocate for. Thank you!
- lmm 9y agoMedium offers a consistent, no-nonsense design which is a nicer reading experience than most blogs, and made more so by not having irrelevant differences between different blogs.
- rocky1138 9y agoRSS solves this problem, since the content from many disparate sources appear in one place in whatever format you prefer. This is done without being beholden to one company who can change things on a whim (often to negative effect).
- lmm 9y agoOnly for reading (and even then, I've yet to find an RSS reader that looks as nice as medium). If you want to respond or comment then the RSS experience falls apart.
- rocky1138 9y agoIt's true that RSS is only good for reading. I think that's part of its name, though. If you want an RSS reader that looks as nice as Medium, then other people might also want that same thing! It might be worth a weekend project if you feel strongly enough about it.
- lmm 9y agoI don't think there's any money in it (I don't think there's any money in Medium either, frankly), and in terms of personal satisfaction I find Feedly adequate, though not as good-looking as Medium.
- icebraining 9y agoUnless the feed only shows an excerpt of each post, as is unfortunately not uncommon.
- benjaminjackman 9y agoI agree with the consistency point however there is never going to be a perfect for everyone version of consistency (in the same way there will never be a perfect pasta sauce that everyone picks as their absolute favorite). For example I really don’t find their designs to be particularly no-nonsense. I would actually prefer a more no-nonsense, absolutely minimally styled html. Like under 10 lines of css. Because I really like contrast, really really don’t care for a position sticky element right where my eyes naturally scan on mobile obscuring stuff, am fine with Open Sans, don’t need the extra page load time spent on who knows what. If there is a dial between form and function I would like to jam that dial to 100% function. Other people with vision issues really need large text formatted as white in black. Others still much prefer the aethestics of font other than Open Sans. It would be nice if somehow we could define precisely how we wanted our reading material formatted across all our devices and across all the varied ways we receive textual information. (Eg it would work with kindle, or in the growing number of electron apps, as well as in all the other software we use). And then sites just had to provide a minimal use of semantic html elements to make it work. So while medium does cleanup the box of chocolates mess of going to random blogs it turns all those chocolates into the one with the same minty flavor and some folks really don’t care for mint chocolates. So when they see a random blog post to them it’s a box of chocolates where they have a shot of winning, with medium it guaranteed to be something they don’t care for. Case in point I read another recent post don Stevie’s in my rss reader and that was pretty nice. Not sure if that will still be option (or for how long) now that he’s moving to medium.
- kwlions 9y agoI don't want to see the same design over and over again. For this reason I also dislike readthedocs. EDIT: There is some dystopian movie (whose title I forgot) where only one restaurant chain exists -- same thing.
- kinkrtyavimoodh 9y agoThe consistency results in everything looking the same, and most would argue that the design is hardly no-nonsense. There is a lot of needless nonsense thrown in there.
- ocdtrekkie 9y agoHis "independent blog" was Blogger: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/ http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/ Let's call it a sidestep.