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I have never understood tech blogs on Medium. Surely if you’re writing about a technical subject, especially programming, you have the skills to setup a quick J
by village-idiot 8y ago
I have never understood tech blogs on Medium. Surely if you’re writing about a technical subject, especially programming, you have the skills to setup a quick Jekyll blog? It’s what I did, and I have no idea why I’d hand control of my user experience over to Medium, no idea whatsoever.
- Alex3917 8y ago1) Built-in recirc 2) SEO optimized 3) Better tech than you'd get on your own platform -- e.g. the ability to act as an oEmbed consumer. The trade off is that you don't have as strong a relationship with your subscribers. But considering that 100k page views probably only gets you 100 subscribers, most bloggers have basically zero chance at getting any real number of subscribers to begin with so for them using a platform like Medium is all upside.
- PaulHoule 8y agoSEO optimized? From what I see there are a few accounts that spam every article posted on Tedium to HN.
- tedmiston 8y agoNot for technical reasons, for distribution. A lot more people subscribe to Medium publications for instance than my personal blog.
- village-idiot 8y agoHanding control of distribution to one company is always a dicey proposition.
- markbnj 8y agoWell, from my perspective I've had my own blog since 2005 and still do (wordpress on a cheap vps), but the articles I publish on Medium get way more interaction, views, reads and comments.