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I wish everyone Medium author would just buy a .com and publish there. I'm not signing in to read text, sorry.

by snypher 5y ago

bserge 5y ago
Are there any advantages of using Medium over Wordpress.com?
- lmm 5y ago
  It has a much nicer editor and it looks better by default.
- marapuru 5y ago
  I think it's more fair to compare Medium to Ghost (https://ghost.org/ https://ghost.org/). It has all the tools for writing, publishing, maintaining subscriber databases and even payments. Self hosted or hosted by ghost. You have all the options.
- swiley 5y ago
  Man those are both terrible. Just use a pastebin if you really care so little.
maven29 5y ago
I'm not sure if things have changed but the paywall is completely optional if you're in the partner program, although it is an opt-out setting on each post you make (if you're in the partner program). You will lose out on discoverability through the medium platform if you do this. This affects search engine rankings as well. >To remove your story from the paywall, follow these instructions. Because your post will no longer be a part of our metered paywall, it will also no longer be recommended to readers, except those who follow you. >At the moment, you can only unmeter a post if you're in the Partner Program. We're working on adding functionality that gives writers who aren't in the Partner Program the option to unmeter previously metered posts. In the meantime, you can join the Partner Program to see the option to unmeter your posts.
cwales95 5y ago
I can usually get around the issue by opening a private tab or by disabling JavaScript before reopening the page. Seems they try to limit your number of views to Medium articles and try to force you to pay for the privilege of viewing more than a few. But I agree, most of the time I don't even bother reading after encountering the paywall.
dest 5y ago
Install NoScript browser extention, then ban medium.com
nonbirithm 5y ago
Remember the RSS reader that was posted recently which generated new feeds by scraping websites? I was thinking of making something similar for Fandom pages to remove all of the page bloat. The content is CC-licensed so I think it should work. The idea is that you'd have a website which acts as a proxy for every Wikia/Fandom site and forwards the content to a MediaWiki instance with a minimalist theme and renders it there. The main issue I came across was that it turns out the wikitext format is highly implementation-depdendent and you'd basically need a full installation of MediaWiki to convert it to HTML. I don't know about Medium's terms for its content, but maybe having a self-hosted proxy for personal use would work. I'm surprised the proxy idea hasn't come up much for taking control of content from websites with dark patterns.

I wish everyone Medium author would just buy a .com and publish there. I'm not signing in to read text, sorry.

bserge 5y ago

Are there any advantages of using Medium over Wordpress.com?

lmm 5y ago
It has a much nicer editor and it looks better by default.
marapuru 5y ago
I think it's more fair to compare Medium to Ghost (https://ghost.org/ https://ghost.org/). It has all the tools for writing, publishing, maintaining subscriber databases and even payments. Self hosted or hosted by ghost. You have all the options.
swiley 5y ago
Man those are both terrible. Just use a pastebin if you really care so little.

maven29 5y ago

I'm not sure if things have changed but the paywall is completely optional if you're in the partner program, although it is an opt-out setting on each post you make (if you're in the partner program). You will lose out on discoverability through the medium platform if you do this. This affects search engine rankings as well. >To remove your story from the paywall, follow these instructions. Because your post will no longer be a part of our metered paywall, it will also no longer be recommended to readers, except those who follow you. >At the moment, you can only unmeter a post if you're in the Partner Program. We're working on adding functionality that gives writers who aren't in the Partner Program the option to unmeter previously metered posts. In the meantime, you can join the Partner Program to see the option to unmeter your posts.

cwales95 5y ago

I can usually get around the issue by opening a private tab or by disabling JavaScript before reopening the page. Seems they try to limit your number of views to Medium articles and try to force you to pay for the privilege of viewing more than a few. But I agree, most of the time I don't even bother reading after encountering the paywall.

dest 5y ago

Install NoScript browser extention, then ban medium.com

nonbirithm 5y ago

Remember the RSS reader that was posted recently which generated new feeds by scraping websites? I was thinking of making something similar for Fandom pages to remove all of the page bloat. The content is CC-licensed so I think it should work. The idea is that you'd have a website which acts as a proxy for every Wikia/Fandom site and forwards the content to a MediaWiki instance with a minimalist theme and renders it there. The main issue I came across was that it turns out the wikitext format is highly implementation-depdendent and you'd basically need a full installation of MediaWiki to convert it to HTML. I don't know about Medium's terms for its content, but maybe having a self-hosted proxy for personal use would work. I'm surprised the proxy idea hasn't come up much for taking control of content from websites with dark patterns.