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> Medium made it possible for anyone to blog and be seen. This was possible long before Medium launched. I recall popular bloggers being a thing years before M
by asaph 8y ago
> Medium made it possible for anyone to blog and be seen.
This was possible long before Medium launched. I recall popular bloggers being a thing years before Medium showed up.
- taneq 8y agoYeah, what about Wordpress, Blogger, etc.? They've been around forever.
- URSpider94 8y agoI think you’re parsing that sentence incorrectly. The emphasis should be on “anyone ... be(ing) seen.” Yes, it’s been possible for a long, long time for anyone to set up a blog, but each blog lives in its own little shell, virtually invisible unless it generates links and traffic. With Medium, your post could be shoulder-to-shoulder on the same page with something written by a Pulitzer Prize winner, or by the founder of Amazon.
- frosted-flakes 8y agoFrom my perspective, Medium is little more than a place to host blog articles. I've never discovered other posts on Medium, only through other sources, like HN or Reddit, and I've probably read hundreds of Medium posts over the past few years. In fact, I don't think I've ever visited Medium's home page. I don't really know why this issue—it's certainly not something I've done consciously. Perhaps it's the continual barrage of popups that makes me unconsciously distasteful of Medium, or the fact that it appears to be monotonous. When I arrive at someone's blog on their personal website, I always click around and explore because the whole site is a personal expression, but reading Medium feels like walking through a faceless, generic office building.