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It's better to create your own blog, and get traffic overtime. Why they earn money on your content?

Vinnl 7y ago
If I use Medium, they might earn money with my content. My blog, on the other hand, costs me money. I do have a personal blog instead of Medium. But it's definitely not about the money.
- collyw 7y ago
  Personally, depending on my mood, if I have the obnoxious "sign in" prompt that medium and others give I'll maybe just not read the blog at all 1 time in 4. I am sure I am not the only one that gets put off by that crap.
  - type0 7y ago
    There's a shifting demographic of medium readers that occurred with the recent introduction of more and more nagging on their site and plenty of blogs that moved away from medium mention it. You might still get your deserved readers if you target social medium experts and marketing managers, so good luck to those who's willing to circleyank with this.
  - thecatspaw 7y ago
    Yeah, why should I log in with google just to read a random blog? There's not even an explanation for it, just a login prompt.
  - provolone 7y ago
    If they had a simple sign in/sign up/dismiss prompt I wouldn't avoid it as readily. Instead they have "pardon the interruption" and "Let's make this official". The "pardon me" politeness doesn't fly, because they recognize it as an interruption. If they are aware, then the polite thing would be to not interrupt. And let's not make this official. I don't want to sign up to read an article. I don't want the clap. I don't want to vote. I don't want to share my data. I just want to view the article. Maybe half way through I might even decide that the author has nothing interesting to say. 50% chance I don't want to read the full article.
  - Vinnl 7y ago
    Sure, there's a lot of reasons to prefer your own blog over Medium, if only for the sake of your readers. Earning money for many is not one of them, though.
- mrunseen 7y ago
  Jekyll + Github Pages / Netlify / Surge is free with subdomain. Or you could buy .dev (or anything else) for minimal price. Personally i bought 1$ .xyz domain. Its not that “costy”.
  - dalore 7y ago
    Perhaps you should write a blog post how to do it?
    - mrunseen 7y ago
      Well, I would be delighted to make post but this is already at front page today :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19947068 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19947068
  - Vinnl 7y ago
    It doesn't cost me a lot of money, indeed, and I'm happy to pay the couple of Euro's that it does. GGP suggested that you shouldn't let Medium earn money over your content, though; even if that's something you care about, it's still a better deal than paying for your blog yourself.

If I use Medium, they might earn money with my content. My blog, on the other hand, costs me money. I do have a personal blog instead of Medium. But it's definitely not about the money.

collyw 7y ago
Personally, depending on my mood, if I have the obnoxious "sign in" prompt that medium and others give I'll maybe just not read the blog at all 1 time in 4. I am sure I am not the only one that gets put off by that crap.
- type0 7y ago
  There's a shifting demographic of medium readers that occurred with the recent introduction of more and more nagging on their site and plenty of blogs that moved away from medium mention it. You might still get your deserved readers if you target social medium experts and marketing managers, so good luck to those who's willing to circleyank with this.
- thecatspaw 7y ago
  Yeah, why should I log in with google just to read a random blog? There's not even an explanation for it, just a login prompt.
- provolone 7y ago
  If they had a simple sign in/sign up/dismiss prompt I wouldn't avoid it as readily. Instead they have "pardon the interruption" and "Let's make this official". The "pardon me" politeness doesn't fly, because they recognize it as an interruption. If they are aware, then the polite thing would be to not interrupt. And let's not make this official. I don't want to sign up to read an article. I don't want the clap. I don't want to vote. I don't want to share my data. I just want to view the article. Maybe half way through I might even decide that the author has nothing interesting to say. 50% chance I don't want to read the full article.
- Vinnl 7y ago
  Sure, there's a lot of reasons to prefer your own blog over Medium, if only for the sake of your readers. Earning money for many is not one of them, though.
mrunseen 7y ago
Jekyll + Github Pages / Netlify / Surge is free with subdomain. Or you could buy .dev (or anything else) for minimal price. Personally i bought 1$ .xyz domain. Its not that “costy”.
- dalore 7y ago
  Perhaps you should write a blog post how to do it?
  - mrunseen 7y ago
    Well, I would be delighted to make post but this is already at front page today :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19947068 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19947068
- Vinnl 7y ago
  It doesn't cost me a lot of money, indeed, and I'm happy to pay the couple of Euro's that it does. GGP suggested that you shouldn't let Medium earn money over your content, though; even if that's something you care about, it's still a better deal than paying for your blog yourself.