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Not to mention that it drives your users away and reduces your conversion rate by showing them a big full-screen banner in front of your posts every single time
by SamWhited 8y ago
Not to mention that it drives your users away and reduces your conversion rate by showing them a big full-screen banner in front of your posts every single time they visit the site unless they sign up for Medium themselves. Who wants to have to log in just to read some blogs?
And then there's the lack of RSS feed, so I have to actually visit each individual blog to see if there are updates instead of having them dropped nicely in my inbox with the rest of my morning read.
Medium is a garbage place for readers and content producers: please stay away from it.
- godzillabrennus 8y agoIf you reblog your content on a Medium blog to take advantage of their user base it can be a great tool. Don't use it for a primary blog.
- kuhhk 8y agoDoesn’t that destroy your SEO? I was warned 6+ years ago never to do that, but can’t recall the technical reason.
- technion 8y agoGo back far enough and I remember you would Google a key phrase, and see the first full ten pages being the exact same article, as accordance with some SEO gaming scheme. Google quite reasonably now sees duplicate identical content as an issue, you can use the "canonical" HTML tag can be used to help it see the "real" link where several exist. I don't know what'll happen when there are only two copies of your page, but I'd hazard a guess it'll preference medium's domain over your own in most cases.
- rococode 8y agoI could imagine Google being smart enough to have some tracking between duplicates. If you include a link to your main blog on Medium perhaps it may understand "pages A and B have the same main content, but A contains an additional link to B so B is probably the true source".
- tlarkworthy 8y agoMedium annotates your blog as the original so in general it can be a duplicate conyent problem but for Medium specifically they do the right thing so it isn't
- SamWhited 8y agoThe only way things change is if people don't use it; even just re-blogging verifies and supports their bad behavior.
- Volt 8y agoMedium does have RSS feeds: https://medium.com/feed/<username> https://medium.com/feed/<username>
- anonred 8y agoMedium’s RSS feeds include comments made by the user, and there isn’t a way (I found) to only get posts.
- reitanqild 8y agoThis is so bad and so obvious that I have a hard time seeing how this isn't "supporting RSS" (for goodwill) while making sure no one uses it (for lock in). Anyone wants to defend Medium on this one?
- SamWhited 8y agoIn case I wasn't clear, I want to read blogs, not random users comments.
- ataturk 8y agoInteresting. I said this about Medium when articles from there began showing up here a couple years ago. I didn't like their politics, but then again, I don't like the politics of most SV companies these days. I can't believe how a new technological frontier got turned into an echo chamber for big government whack job collectivists. We were on our way to something brighter for humanity and then fucking Google and Facebook fucked it all up. Thanks CIA.
- mnmlsm 8y agoMedium is OK for reblogging, but for original dev blogs Hashnode is much better if you want to use an external platform.