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Amusingly enough, his charts & images don’t display without JavaScript. Are they interactive, or is he himself using JavaScript when a simple img tag would suf

by zeveb 8y ago

Amusingly enough, his charts & images don’t display without JavaScript. Are they interactive, or is he himself using JavaScript when a simple img tag would suffice?

xrisk 8y ago
It's probably because his blog is hosted on Medium.
hu3 8y ago
Blame Medium. Why do people even use this pile of garbage? * Slow * Bloated * No images if you block cookies or js * Paywalled. Asks for $5 membership every other day. Requiring deleting cookies to read articles * Probably tracks the living shit out of visitors * Somehow needs a ton of js to render a blog article * Frequent divs in the middle of the screen asking to create an account And they don't even produce content. It's all created by users. I see business opportunity here.
- Drdrdrq 8y ago
  > I see business opportunity here. Genuinly curious: do you see one without the annoying aspects you described? How would you monetize it?
  - hu3 8y ago
    Admittedly, I don't know of another blog platform without ads. But I haven't taken time to search either. > How would you monetize it I wouldn't. Medium solves a non-problem. It only exists because VC funds have this tendency of pouring money over anything that resembles business. However, Medium isn't too big to fail and I suspect its grace period is long past and now business decisions are mostly driven by shareholders seeking a favorable exit strategy. [1] [1] https://marketingland.com/medium-will-eliminate-promoted-stories-ad-product-following-layoffs-202566 https://marketingland.com/medium-will-eliminate-promoted-sto... But if I really had to come up with a way to monetize Medium, I'd take a look at Wikipedia business model.
    - strken 8y ago
      Wikipedia is a non-profit. It by definition doesn't have a business model.
      - hu3 8y ago
        And yet Wikimedia foundation reported an increase of $22 millions in net assets in 2016 alone, totaling $120 millions sitting in the bank. [1] So my suggestion stands: There are lessons to be learned by looking at how Wikipedia manages without ads. [1] https://annual.wikimedia.org/2017/financials.html https://annual.wikimedia.org/2017/financials.html
- sotojuan 8y ago
  Because people don’t care about those points, it’s easy, and it gets you an audience quickly.
  - hu3 8y ago
    Speak for yourself. Some people do mind shitty websites. That's one of the reasons Medium had to layoff 1/3 of its employees last year.

by zeveb 8y ago

Amusingly enough, his charts & images don’t display without JavaScript. Are they interactive, or is he himself using JavaScript when a simple img tag would suffice?

xrisk 8y ago

It's probably because his blog is hosted on Medium.

hu3 8y ago

Blame Medium. Why do people even use this pile of garbage? * Slow * Bloated * No images if you block cookies or js * Paywalled. Asks for $5 membership every other day. Requiring deleting cookies to read articles * Probably tracks the living shit out of visitors * Somehow needs a ton of js to render a blog article * Frequent divs in the middle of the screen asking to create an account And they don't even produce content. It's all created by users. I see business opportunity here.

Drdrdrq 8y ago
> I see business opportunity here. Genuinly curious: do you see one without the annoying aspects you described? How would you monetize it?
- hu3 8y ago
  Admittedly, I don't know of another blog platform without ads. But I haven't taken time to search either. > How would you monetize it I wouldn't. Medium solves a non-problem. It only exists because VC funds have this tendency of pouring money over anything that resembles business. However, Medium isn't too big to fail and I suspect its grace period is long past and now business decisions are mostly driven by shareholders seeking a favorable exit strategy. [1] [1] https://marketingland.com/medium-will-eliminate-promoted-stories-ad-product-following-layoffs-202566 https://marketingland.com/medium-will-eliminate-promoted-sto... But if I really had to come up with a way to monetize Medium, I'd take a look at Wikipedia business model.
  - strken 8y ago
    Wikipedia is a non-profit. It by definition doesn't have a business model.
    - hu3 8y ago
      And yet Wikimedia foundation reported an increase of $22 millions in net assets in 2016 alone, totaling $120 millions sitting in the bank. [1] So my suggestion stands: There are lessons to be learned by looking at how Wikipedia manages without ads. [1] https://annual.wikimedia.org/2017/financials.html https://annual.wikimedia.org/2017/financials.html
sotojuan 8y ago
Because people don’t care about those points, it’s easy, and it gets you an audience quickly.
- hu3 8y ago
  Speak for yourself. Some people do mind shitty websites. That's one of the reasons Medium had to layoff 1/3 of its employees last year.