> 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

> 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.