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Does anyone know who reads content on Medium regularly? Or are there people/orgs you think of as credible publishing on the platform? They've always been the T
by pkghost 6y ago
Does anyone know who reads content on Medium regularly? Or are there people/orgs you think of as credible publishing on the platform?
They've always been the TEDx of blogs in my mind: well-marketed, but of variable and unremarkable quality. I wonder if I'm missing something.
- minimaxir 6y agoMedium has a very strong SEO long-tail (case in point, Towards Data Science, which is hosted on Medium, dominates the Google search results for anything related to data science despite the variable quality of the articles). I haven't seen any recent articles on Medium go viral on Twitter/HN in a surprisingly long time.
- ipiz0618 6y agoThe only one I read regularly is the Netflix Engineering blog.
- jp57 6y agoI regularly read Medium stories linked from the front page of HN, but I don’t think they’re generally Medium original content, which I think is the point of this editorial change.
- pmontra 6y agoI end up on Medium from searches or from posts to the HN home page. Either to medium.com or to some domain hosted there. In the latter case I realize it's Medium because of the 5+ seconds when the browser stops at a blank page, probably because it's loading some huge JS file instead of just the text content I'm there to read. To say that I don't appreciate that design is a big understatement.
- browningstreet 6y agoNope. I don’t follow anyone. Mostly end up there reading links posted to HN. They were what came before Substack.