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Medium is quickly going down the Quora path for me. The content quality is becoming poorer as more and more people use it as a place to dump their zero-traffic
by puranjay 7y ago
Medium is quickly going down the Quora path for me. The content quality is becoming poorer as more and more people use it as a place to dump their zero-traffic blog posts.
The aggressive content gating and pop-ups are another Quora-esque introduction.
Just a case of being blinded by metrics. Adding an aggressive sign-up form might get you more emails and sign-ups, but it will also annoy away better quality users.
- kbumsik 7y agoIt is worse than Quora now because Medium not only requires sign-ins bit asks for subscription to read.
- bhouston 7y agoNever put a blog on Medium. They want to charge me to read it.
- bubblethink 7y agoIt is also worse than quora because quora can be blocked easily in search results since it is one domain. People use medium with their own domains too, which makes it hard to block entirely.
- a5aAqU 7y agoTry https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/styl-us/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/styl-us/
- wildrhythms 7y agoI had a Lyft driver trying to explain to me how they’re going to make it big on Medium. I still am not sure what they write about or how exposure on Medium works, but they were convinced that it was THE place to blog. I could only politely nod and smile thinking about how often I saw that obnoxious user hostile popover.