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Should you post your content on Medium? No.

25 points by chrbutler 7y ago

kevsim 7y ago
Anyone have recommendations for what to use instead with similar ease of use? Our company is about to start a blog and we want non-techies to be able to write articles. We don't to host it ourselves (ideally) though we'd like to use our own domain.
- craze3 7y ago
  I'm actually working on a decentralized alternative right now! I didn't expect custom domain support to be so in-demand. Would love to know any other "must-have" features on your list?
  - x__x 7y ago
    Can you explain more about what your working on?
- paulddraper 7y ago
  I too am interested in the answer to this question. Wordpress and Drupal are my standbys. (Self-hosted or cloud-hosted.)
- x__x 7y ago
  Buy domain: NameSilo.com Get cheap shared hosting plan: SiteGround In the admin panel of the hosting plan, you can point and click to install a free Wordpress site (the hosting company will do it for free if you contact them). Once it's installed you can point and click to choose a theme. It takes a little time getting used to everything, but anyone with no coding or technical skills can do it
- pkalinowski 7y ago
  I'd take a look at static pages. Go to forestry.io, create new page from starter template. You now have a working blog with source on github. Then go to netlify.com, create new site and hook it with your github repo. You now have free hosting. Add custom domain to netlify hosting. It's about 20 minutes total and you get SSL, global CSN, autopublish on every change, every change as commit, all data in plaintext instead of database (no platform lock in). Super easy version of AWS lambda as a bonus. It requires zero technical knowledge from writers and gives all the possibilities to technical people
- guu 7y ago
  These are all good options that require no technical expertise: https://write.as https://write.as https://ghost.org https://ghost.org https://wordpress.com https://wordpress.com
- DoctorOW 7y ago
  Personally if you're looking for something no more complex than Medium I'd just use the WordPress.com paid plans. No membership or sign-in required for your readers and pretty much anyone who has worked in blogging has a knowledge of WordPress. If you're willing to put in the effort and try something new I'll second the Forestry/Netlify approach above with the caveat that it might still require some training if you want to do anything fancy.
crazysmoove 7y ago
dev.to
Havoc 7y ago
Author misses one key point. Google does now use nofollow links as an input. So the whole medium keeps the domain authority isn't entirely true

25 points by chrbutler 7y ago

Anyone have recommendations for what to use instead with similar ease of use? Our company is about to start a blog and we want non-techies to be able to write articles. We don't to host it ourselves (ideally) though we'd like to use our own domain.

craze3 7y ago
I'm actually working on a decentralized alternative right now! I didn't expect custom domain support to be so in-demand. Would love to know any other "must-have" features on your list?
- x__x 7y ago
  Can you explain more about what your working on?
paulddraper 7y ago
I too am interested in the answer to this question. Wordpress and Drupal are my standbys. (Self-hosted or cloud-hosted.)
x__x 7y ago
Buy domain: NameSilo.com Get cheap shared hosting plan: SiteGround In the admin panel of the hosting plan, you can point and click to install a free Wordpress site (the hosting company will do it for free if you contact them). Once it's installed you can point and click to choose a theme. It takes a little time getting used to everything, but anyone with no coding or technical skills can do it
pkalinowski 7y ago
I'd take a look at static pages. Go to forestry.io, create new page from starter template. You now have a working blog with source on github. Then go to netlify.com, create new site and hook it with your github repo. You now have free hosting. Add custom domain to netlify hosting. It's about 20 minutes total and you get SSL, global CSN, autopublish on every change, every change as commit, all data in plaintext instead of database (no platform lock in). Super easy version of AWS lambda as a bonus. It requires zero technical knowledge from writers and gives all the possibilities to technical people
guu 7y ago
These are all good options that require no technical expertise: https://write.as https://write.as https://ghost.org https://ghost.org https://wordpress.com https://wordpress.com
DoctorOW 7y ago
Personally if you're looking for something no more complex than Medium I'd just use the WordPress.com paid plans. No membership or sign-in required for your readers and pretty much anyone who has worked in blogging has a knowledge of WordPress. If you're willing to put in the effort and try something new I'll second the Forestry/Netlify approach above with the caveat that it might still require some training if you want to do anything fancy.

crazysmoove 7y ago

dev.to

Havoc 7y ago

Author misses one key point. Google does now use nofollow links as an input. So the whole medium keeps the domain authority isn't entirely true