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Everything on Medium is the epitome of blog spam. They're worse than Blogspot these days. The GitHub link is the true original source. The (PARDON THE INTERRUPT
by mcbits 8y ago
Everything on Medium is the epitome of blog spam. They're worse than Blogspot these days. The GitHub link is the true original source. The (PARDON THE INTERRUPTION!) Medium blurb is (PARDON THE INTERRUPTION!) just for (PARDON THE INTERRUPTION!) marketing and link juice, a.k.a spam.
- kumarharsh 8y agoMay the gods save us from the day when the creators get the ability to market their products.
- rootlocus 8y agoI'm sorry, what? > Electron Fiddle is entirely open source and developed by a group of volunteers. And even if it was paid product, what does bloat have to do with marketing?
- dewey 8y agoWhat does marketing have to do with if it’s a free or paid product? Or if it’s from a company or two volunteers in a basement? If you want people to adopt your open source code you have to do some marketing of some sorts. Otherwise it’s just another dead project on Github.
- mcbits 8y agoThe problem is that the only reason to post on Medium today is for the clicks. As a blogging platform it has gone down the toilet, which is a shame because it started out with a rather promising reading experience.
- dewey 8y agoThat seems like a bold generalization. Just because there are blogs that do that doesn’t mean the whole platform should be disregarded. I really don’t like Medium but for a lot of people it’s simply a way to publish something without worrying about setting up something more advanced. A lot of things submitted to HN are also for the clicks, doesn’t mean it’s a bad thing.
- JoJoJoboop 8y ago> for a lot of people it’s simply a way to publish something without worrying about setting up something more advanced. I would appreciate this point if it wasn't for the fact that a lot of actual developers use this platform. It doesn't make sense for people knowledgeable about tech to not spend 10 minutes searching for a better blogging tool. I've begun to subconsciously avoid any links to a medium post regardless of the content. I don't know if there are other people who do this, but it definitely is indicative of how bad the website has become.
- wild_preference 8y agoJust because you’re a developer doesn’t mean you want to dick around with everything much less blogging. The stereotype is obnoxious. Developers use Medium for the same reasons other people do.
- JoJoJoboop 8y agoI only suggested that developers should be more cognizant of web tools than the average internet user. The "stereotype" of tech people being more familiar with tech is true irregardless of how obnoxious you may find it. Can you give me a legitimate reason why someone creating developer software finds medium easier than say something like github pages?
- mcbits 8y agoApparently it wasn't terribly hard to publish the README on GitHub because he pushed that two days before this article. This article is just duplicate/spun content based on that. It exists for no reason other than to link to the GitHub page, which I did above for the benefit of anyone else who dislikes Medium as much as I do. > Developers use Medium for the same reasons other people do. Such as blogspam.
- mcbits 8y agoThe platform should be disregarded because it's a rotten platform. This particular article can further be disregarded because the GitHub project README is practically the same content without all the stuff that Medium does to be annoying.