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I wrote one article on Medium. I ended up writing my own little version using open source markdown rendering to see how hard it would be to roll my own, https:

by bwasti 7y ago

I wrote one article on Medium. I ended up writing my own little version using open source markdown rendering to see how hard it would be to roll my own, https://jott.live https://jott.live From what I found, there is a lot of stuff Medium does well that is hard to recreate by one's self. Super simple features, like - rich text editing that isn't ugly - caching what you're currently working on - tracking views and who has viewed your article aren't easy to build and generally aren't worth it unless you write many many articles. Although I don't like the aggressive account on-boarding and payment models for reading articles, Medium certainly makes life easy for writing articles.

luckylion 7y ago
You don't necessarily have to build it yourself to have control over it though. I mean, WP isn't the dream you've always looked for, but it (+ a plugin or five) can do that and is pretty much set up in an hour. With wordpress.com, you'll get that without running it yourself.
bubblewrap 7y ago
Wordpress has an app store for plugins. I installed a popular statistics plugin and it seems to be doing well. I think it is pretty amazing, actually (the app store). https://wordpress.org/plugins/ https://wordpress.org/plugins/ Hosting my blog costs me 5€/month, though. Not sure if I have the cheapest option. On the upside, it also supports multiple email accounts, so I am in the process of moving all emails (also family) over there, saving on extra costs for email. I think attracting viewers is the only real issue. That's why social media, Tumblr and Medium took over from blogs. Because they have the recommendation and sharing features that bring viewers to people's postings.
chrshawkes 7y ago
They use Quill.js - rich editing (you can use this in your project easily) Caching/saving work just simple AJAX calls to a localized database or filesystem which can store the JSON data that Quill.JS creates. Google Analytics is free and offers more customer insight and analysis opportunities and it's as simple as a script tag inclusion in the html. I plan to show how to replicate this website in a matter of minutes on my YouTube channel.

by bwasti 7y ago

luckylion 7y ago

You don't necessarily have to build it yourself to have control over it though. I mean, WP isn't the dream you've always looked for, but it (+ a plugin or five) can do that and is pretty much set up in an hour. With wordpress.com, you'll get that without running it yourself.

bubblewrap 7y ago

Wordpress has an app store for plugins. I installed a popular statistics plugin and it seems to be doing well. I think it is pretty amazing, actually (the app store). https://wordpress.org/plugins/ https://wordpress.org/plugins/ Hosting my blog costs me 5€/month, though. Not sure if I have the cheapest option. On the upside, it also supports multiple email accounts, so I am in the process of moving all emails (also family) over there, saving on extra costs for email. I think attracting viewers is the only real issue. That's why social media, Tumblr and Medium took over from blogs. Because they have the recommendation and sharing features that bring viewers to people's postings.

chrshawkes 7y ago

They use Quill.js - rich editing (you can use this in your project easily) Caching/saving work just simple AJAX calls to a localized database or filesystem which can store the JSON data that Quill.JS creates. Google Analytics is free and offers more customer insight and analysis opportunities and it's as simple as a script tag inclusion in the html. I plan to show how to replicate this website in a matter of minutes on my YouTube channel.