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It's not laziness. Medium comes with an audience and rolling your own likely doesn't. It's a question of do you get more people from medium than people you los
by austhrow743 7y ago
It's not laziness. Medium comes with an audience and rolling your own likely doesn't.
It's a question of do you get more people from medium than people you lose from other sources because your post is on medium?
- sexy_seedbox 7y ago> It's not laziness... If/When Medium decides to add more popups, tracking or advertise over your writing and you'll eventually have to move off the platform, you'll probably regret not having put in the work up front to own and publish your own content. Also, if your project/article is interesting, people will share it after some minor promoting on social medium or on HN, regardless if it's on Medium or not.
- craftinator 7y ago"Also, if your project/article is interesting, people will share it after some minor promoting on social medium or on HN, regardless if it's on Medium or not." People who are part of the audience you don't have because you aren't on Medium?
- buboard 7y agoWhat audience? All the medium articles i read, i found here, in reddit or Twitter
- krapp 7y agoYou just described three link aggregators, sites whose purpose is to spread third party content. The audience is the people posting Medium articles, and the people who follow them back to Medium.
- buboard 7y agoshocking i know, but i don't follow anyone on medium (i dont even have an account)
- krapp 7y agoNeither do I, but that isn't really relevant. Medium has an audience of readers who don't sign up for the service, but that's still an audience.
- effingwewt 7y agoIf the responses on their site to articles posted there are any indicator they don't even have a built-in audience any more. Even articles that make it to the front page here, the hn comments are half or more people complaining (rightly so imho) about medium. Medium used to be good, people published good content there. but as they increased their gatekeeping it seemed like there was a sharp decline in quality and quantity.
- krapp 7y agoI'm not disagreeing, but it doesn't really matter how high the quality of the content is on any site, more people on HN are going to complain about the presence of javascript and attempts at monetization than will ever bother to read the article. It only happens more often with Medium because Medium articles are posted more often. I don't think it's an objective indicator of much, beyond HN's generally cantankerous attitude towards the modern web.
- buboard 7y agoIt's no different than blogspot then, and blogger has the record of longest running blog service.
- askafriend 7y agoI have an account on Medium and I do follow people on Medium. Weird.
- LegitShady 7y agoMedium has no audience. People go to medium for specific articles. Other than that it's basically a collection of blogs. Do you browse collections of blogs? Nobody I know does.
- muzani 7y agoThis was once the case, but these days my articles get about 20 views each. This is ridiculously low, even worse than putting it on Twitter without any followers. Medium gets more traffic from me than vice versa.