Going back through Hacker News history to some of the earliest posts on Medium, and the earliest articles about it, it is evident that the community was somewhe

Going back through Hacker News history to some of the earliest posts on Medium, and the earliest articles about it, it is evident that the community was somewhere between skeptical to downright antagonistic from the beginning. It makes sense, developers / IT people are most qualified to build and host their own websites, and more likely than the average person to understand the implications of allowing someone else to host their content. So it seems that the HN crowd and the general programmer community are not the audience for Medium. Despite this, it seems that a large percentage of development tutorials and articles I come across today are hosted there. Personally, I will be happy to see better alternatives start popping up.