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Why I'm Leaving Medium
- angersock 9y agoTl,dr: a webshit switches from one walled garden to another in hopes of getting paid to write blogs instead of getting a real job.
- thekonqueror 9y agoAuthor is moving to a self-hosted WordPress blog.
- angersock 9y agoYeah, got me there. I misparsed the Praxis bit as a different host instead of what they were trying to build.
- danso 9y agoI liked th author's description of the hidden cost of the freemium content model: > Freemium relies on one basic assumption: that attention is cheaper than money. It essentially allows you to pay for content with a cheaper currency — your attention — than cold, hard cash. But this assumption has now been overturned. For an increasingly larger percentage of the online population, attention has become the scarcest good of all. So “free” content has become terribly expensive, if it consumes your attention without delivering tangible value.
- himom 9y agoIf you’re just starting out or just launch small articles into the aether, Medium is fine. If you have zillions of paying subs or a few high-paying subs, you’re gonna want a more tailored platform that can help you deliver them more value than what they paid so that you get good WoM network effects. By that time, you should have self / staff / contractors whom can write CMS plugins, edit videos, write good copy, choose pleasant fonts, make decent themes and generally make the site pleasant and fresh.