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While Medium is a bit simpler to use than some other blogging/publishing platforms, the difference isn't all that much. Wasn't the real reason to post on Mediu

While Medium is a bit simpler to use than some other blogging/publishing platforms, the difference isn't all that much. Wasn't the real reason to post on Medium more about monetization and discovery?

aklemm 5y ago
Yeah, I think monetization and discovery were drivers to Medium. Apparently that comes with a lot of trade-offs in terms of autonomy. It was hard enough to play ball with Google as an independent site, and I'm not sure people find that worthwhile at all any more.
boxed 5y ago
It wasn't for me. It was: - it looked good - it was very easy to just write - the lack of customization meants I didn't get stuck for hours and hours trying to find a template or choose a statist site generator, or tweak CSS, choose images, etc. Ultimately I moved to github pages where at least I had to get jekyll (which is kinda crap imo, but works), but I have spent a lot of time tweaking it and I still don't like the design. (https://kodare.net https://kodare.net if you want to see)
- ta988 5y ago
  I like your design, simple and efficient. Could put some separations for your upper right links, if you add an rss link I'll follow that.
  - boxed 5y ago
    There is an RSS feed at the standard place so just shoving the url into your RSS reader will work.
- rambambram 5y ago
  I also like your design.
ghaff 5y ago
I think there was also a time when many people assumed--not knowing any better--that something published on Medium was more authoritative than something on a random personal blog. I used to sometimes cross-publish to Medium when something was going to be linked from a company newsletter if we wanted it on a third-party site. But I haven't done that for a few years now. While it's nothing great, I just use Blogger/Google. It's free, clean, exportable, and can handle traffic spikes. You can run ads but don't have to; I don'tI've thought about moving to Wordpress and went so far as to start a more focused blog there at one point. But I dropped it and just continued to use Blogger.

While Medium is a bit simpler to use than some other blogging/publishing platforms, the difference isn't all that much. Wasn't the real reason to post on Medium more about monetization and discovery?

aklemm 5y ago

Yeah, I think monetization and discovery were drivers to Medium. Apparently that comes with a lot of trade-offs in terms of autonomy. It was hard enough to play ball with Google as an independent site, and I'm not sure people find that worthwhile at all any more.

boxed 5y ago

It wasn't for me. It was: - it looked good - it was very easy to just write - the lack of customization meants I didn't get stuck for hours and hours trying to find a template or choose a statist site generator, or tweak CSS, choose images, etc. Ultimately I moved to github pages where at least I had to get jekyll (which is kinda crap imo, but works), but I have spent a lot of time tweaking it and I still don't like the design. (https://kodare.net https://kodare.net if you want to see)

ta988 5y ago
I like your design, simple and efficient. Could put some separations for your upper right links, if you add an rss link I'll follow that.
- boxed 5y ago
  There is an RSS feed at the standard place so just shoving the url into your RSS reader will work.
rambambram 5y ago
I also like your design.

ghaff 5y ago

I think there was also a time when many people assumed--not knowing any better--that something published on Medium was more authoritative than something on a random personal blog. I used to sometimes cross-publish to Medium when something was going to be linked from a company newsletter if we wanted it on a third-party site. But I haven't done that for a few years now. While it's nothing great, I just use Blogger/Google. It's free, clean, exportable, and can handle traffic spikes. You can run ads but don't have to; I don'tI've thought about moving to Wordpress and went so far as to start a more focused blog there at one point. But I dropped it and just continued to use Blogger.