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Dear Devs, please stop using Medium for your contents
Having a hard time to reading without the annoying popup for your sign up, please, let me know which other platforms do you use?
- jraph 7y agoThis comes up again and again, but a personal solution until things move is to disable Javascript on Medium. Then, you are presented with a fully working page, without any distraction. Just disable JS on Medium. It "gracefully improves".
- andybak 7y agoI've reached my article limit and it won't show me the full text even with js disabled. Do people realise that interested readers aren't getting to their content because they chose Medium?
- fyp 7y agoIn chrome, open developer tools then in "Application" tab, "Clear Storage" subtab, click "clear site data"
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- kbeest 7y agoYou can just use incognito on Chrome or private browser with Safari.
- gnicholas 7y agoThis only applies to articles that authors choose to monetize. Articles that are not monetized for not count toward your limit, and you can read them even if you’ve already reached your limit.
- tomglynch 7y agoTo do this for chrome users: 1. Go to medium.com or a medium.com article 2. Click the icon to the left of the url in the url bar, it will probably be a lock or an info icon. 3. Select site settings. 4. Under permissions, change Javascript to Block. Works a treat! Thanks!
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- have_faith 7y agoI tried dev.to but the signal to noise ratio was much worse than Medium. It combines the worst parts of Medium with the worst parts of Twitter. I had high hopes for it though and hope it can improve. Medium seems to strike a good a balance as I have been able to find with regards to quality albeit with a little searching.
- IceCreamGondola 7y agoAgreed, the quality of content on there isn't poor in itself but is aimed at getting low hanging fruit.
- protonimitate 7y agoI want to like dev.to, but I think it needs more granular curation for the feed. I want to follow interesting JS/web-dev related stuff, but if I follow related tags all I see is "5 tips for new devs" and "how to pass the interview" type articles.
- 1337shadow 7y agogitlab.com/pages provides many example blog engines they will host for free
- sexy_seedbox 7y agoI don't get why devs work so hard on their project/tutorial, only to be lazy on the last step (publishing/announcement) and give away their content to be published on Medium. It's very easy to roll out a Hugo/Jekyll/Zola static blog published for free on Github/Gitlab/Netlify. Then point it to your own domain name so you own your content and don't have to worry about what some 3rd party site does on top of your writing.
- dewey 7y ago> I don't get why devs work so hard on their project... Because in the early days of Medium you got a lot of reach through them promoting your content on other blog posts. This now went down a lot from what I've read and the additional paywall / nagging module on each visit is not helping either. I think it'll naturally disappear as more and more people realize that creating their own site isn't that hard any more and having your own domain / brand is useful.
- buboard 7y ago> having your own domain / brand is useful. I wish more people realized that. It costs as much as a cup of coffee per month and you can also use it for backups etc. Wordpress comes preinstalled and autoupdating in most hosts.
- mikece 7y agoProbably because after crafting a product, solution, or e-polemic, the last thing we’re interested in doing is wrangling a manual process when an in-browser wysiwyg composer gets the job done. Yes, medium is a visual pain (unless you don’t reflexively engage reader mode on Firefox or Safari). The next best (least worst) option is probably a self-hosted WordPress blog with zero/few plugins.
- sexy_seedbox 7y ago> The next best (least worst) option is probably a self-hosted WordPress blog with zero/few plugins. If you already have dev experience, I'd argue that rolling out a static blog with a pre-made Hugo/Jekyll theme (lots of Medium-ish clones) would be just as fast as rolling out a self-hosted WordPress blog.
- dezb 7y agojesus get a MySpace account and be done with it ;-)
- ruairidhwm 7y agoI moved off medium to self-host my blog via Gatsby and Netlify. It's a far nicer experience and I wouldn't go back!
- brainlessdev 7y agohttps://github.com/fnune/nay https://github.com/fnune/nay A Chrome/Mozilla extension to help you avoid clicking on links from websites you don't like. I use it to block medium.com links.
- everybodyknows 7y agoBeen wanting something like this, will try it on FF desktop. Mobile support would be a big attraction for users with low-powered devices. Accidental taps on slow links to fatty content e.g. news sites can trigger some pain.
- brainlessdev 7y agoIt supports mobile I think. I'm the maintainer, so please open an issue if it doesn't.
- dwheeler 7y agoFor a personal domain, own your own domain or be owned by someone else.
- kresten 7y agoPublish on medium? I instantly close your post.
- coldtea 7y agoThe reason people publish on Medium is that it comes with a large, eager to read, audience. People see numbers of visitors in Medium that they don't see when they post on their personal websites... So, unless you also come and check people's personally hosted blogs, and convince millions to do the same, don't let the door hit you on your way out when you "instantly close" Medium posts...
- simion314 7y agoNot sure why but I expect a big storm when Medium does something "outrageous"/"politically incorrect" and then people would move in mass. We need to calculate teh cost of a possible migration in the future, what happens if you delete your account in protest or they will delete it for you.
- m-p-3 7y agoI use RSS feeds to monitor all of these.
- DerekQ 7y agoMedium hate comes up again and again here, and I get it to a degree. But, Medium delivers an audience that hosting your own rarely does. Fair enough if all you want to do is post to HN, but if posting to HN is only one delivery channel, you're giving up a huge audience just to placate techie UI sensibilities on this site. Posting on my own blog gets me single digit views, because I don't have an audience of my own. Sure, I could and probably should work on that, but working on that is a long term plan. Posting to Medium via an established publication such as The Startup, HackerNoon or The Mission has delivered 5k to 50k reads (not views) for me in the past. I think a sanity check is required here. Annoy a few techie users or have your work read by many thousands who would not otherwise read it. To me that's a no brainer.
- otras 7y agoI host a simple Hugo blog on GitHub pages. The only cost for me is the domain name. Highly recommend Hugo, since it makes everything outside of writing easy. The downside is that discoverability is lower, but my goal for it is writing for myself rather than getting page views.
- jjjbokma 7y agoI self-host two blogs [0][1]. I even made the static site generator I wrote for the second one available [2]. Each time I visit a Medium page I wonder why people are still using it. [0] http://johnbokma.com/blog/ http://johnbokma.com/blog/ [1] https://plurrrr.com/ https://plurrrr.com/ [2] https://github.com/john-bokma/tumblelog https://github.com/john-bokma/tumblelog
- poisonborz 7y agoAs usual whenever this comes up, no alternatives recommended. And the truth is, all alternatives are worse currently. They either require way more out-of-scope effort, or draw in a lot less potential readers.
- foursixnine 7y agoI use jekyll since ages, since it was easy to set up && publish, and lately started syncing the content to dev.to in order to try to amplify the audience (although most of what I write, are just oneliners, so that I don't forget)
- sethammons 7y agoI wonder if there is space for a web-ring type solution. Have a discovery service that an author plugs at the bottom/footer of their posts that can link to similar labeled articles. Now you have discoverability and control of your content. For monitization, you could go with ads and/or subscription.
- deca6cda37d0 7y agoSomeone should start a personal/company dev blog aggregator. Don’t allow any medium.com URL’s.
- fileeditview 7y agoShameless plug: I created Glyph, a static site generator utilizing Github Issues and Github Pages. It should be great for developers because 99% of the time you will use Github anyways and you don't need any other accounts to publish. (hn link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16776047 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16776047) Checkout the following resources if you are interested: https://github.com/dbriemann/glyph https://github.com/dbriemann/glyph https://github.com/dbriemann/glyph-zero https://github.com/dbriemann/glyph-zero As an example have a look at my blog (not very active): https://dbriemann.github.io/blog/ https://dbriemann.github.io/blog/ You can click on the "Discuss" button to go to the "original" markdown as a Github issue.
- cwilkes 7y agoI quickly looked over your GH pages for examples and didn’t see anything beyond the link to your personal blog, which you note hasn’t been updated in a year and a half. Maybe making a post on that blog about how you use your own software would make more people interested in your project? Plus it can act as documentation. It would greatly reduce the friction people have trying out something new to see it being actively used.
- fileeditview 7y agoThe blog I linked was created with Glyph. There is also a blog post about it: https://dbriemann.github.io/blog/2-introducing-glyph-static-site-generator-powered-by-github-issues-and-pages.html https://dbriemann.github.io/blog/2-introducing-glyph-static-... In fact that is the reason why I linked it because as you said I am not writing any blog posts these days.
- BrandiATMuhkuh 7y agoIt might not work for everyone, but you can answer your own question on stackoverflow. If you want to write a blog post about how to setup e.g.: a Webserver on a raspberry pi, you could formulate it as a question on stackoverflow, and answer your own question. I personally really like this approach.
- JohnFen 7y agoI agree for a number of reasons. I strongly dislike Medium, and avoid it unless there's something specific of exceptional interest that is only there (which is reasonably rare).
- dr-detroit 7y agoThose articles aren't for you they are to impress potential employers who can afford to pay for Medium.
- TheLastSamurai 7y agoFully agree with you, best option is to start your own blog using either Blogger.com or a statically hosted site at Github.com (they allow static-hosting). And if you can spend some money on it, why not register your own domain and go for your own Wordpress or Drupal hosted site? Own your content and be your own master if you call yourself a developer!
- koehr 7y agoI think the best way is in the middle. It is called POSSE: Publish Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere. You own your stuff by first posting it on your own page and then syndicate it to other places for visibility.
- lmiller1990 7y agoI post to my own blog and cross-post to Medium. I get a lot more views on my Medium cross posts - that's why I continue to post there. I've found job freelance opportunities via people visiting my Github, which they said they found from Medium.
- heavyset_go 7y agoI automatically follow any developer's blog I come across with an RSS feed. Just putting it out there for anyone who has a blog and wants to share :)
- pythonbase 7y agoI use Medium to direct traffic to my personal blog. This is what 3rd party publishing channels are for, be it Medium, LinkedIn or FB groups/pages.
- koehr 7y agoExactly my thought.
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- pknerd 7y agoMedium is more of a traffic generator for me. I post articles on my blog and then simply _Import_ them on Medium. Almost 99.9% of my articles are free without any paywall.
- pinehqcom 7y agoI setup this alternative for Medium, https://bun4.com https://bun4.com. Make a Pull Request on https://github.com/pinehq/bun4 https://github.com/pinehq/bun4 and it automatically compiles. Stop complaining and start writing ;)