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I don't agree with this framing of Medium as the bad guy here. I posted articles to Medium (for distribution.) Hacker Noon requested that my articles by include

by firasd 8y ago

I don't agree with this framing of Medium as the bad guy here. I posted articles to Medium (for distribution.) Hacker Noon requested that my articles by included in their publication, and I accepted (for the distribution!) Now if Hacker Noon is trying to take my articles and publish them separately from Medium, I appreciate the heads up from Medium that something different is going on. Also, this email is in response to a legal agreement sent out by Hacker Noon to contributors, asking for agreement to Hacker Noon's new terms of service.

smooke 8y ago
Hey David from Hackernoon here. There are not good guys and bad guys. Its just changing business interests. Medium blocked our revenue stream (weekly sponsor) while continuing to run pop up ads on site to create medium accounts. To be a sustainable business, independent publications can not depend on medium's content management system. Also, request a story is a function that hasnt existed for years. Overall, the vast majority of links to hacker noon stories go to hackernoon.com, and we are asking the community to opt-in to keeping their stories where they are at hackernoon.com/story-title.