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Good on you! Medium can go ahead and go out of business in my opinion. It makes the web worse rather than better ImE, like Pinterest.

ycombinete 5y ago
I’m out of the loop on this. What’s wrong with medium?
- Nextgrid 5y ago
  It tries to paywall content to recoup its millions in VC investment.
- ivanmontillam 5y ago
  Some of the greatest posts are paywalled, and the user experience for it it's terrible. The benefit of Medium is the exposure and that if you're good enough, you can actually be paid via Medium Partners Program, but on the other hand, these benefits are at the expense of decentralization and owning your content. You don't own your content when you publish on Medium. Once it happened to me that a post wasn't open to read and it claimed I could read it for free if I signed up. Then I went ahead and signed up, and it was still paywalled[0]. The experience was frustrating. [0]: https://mobile.twitter.com/IvanMontillaM/status/1348007592069627906 https://mobile.twitter.com/IvanMontillaM/status/134800759206...
  - jpalomaki 5y ago
    Could it be that the possibility of making some money with the content actually encourages people to create better content?
    - ivanmontillam 5y ago
      Yes, I'm not against profitting off your content, though you can make money with your own blog as well, with the upfront cost of having to build your own audience, of course. I'm not saying it's easy, just saying it's also possible without the need giving away your content rights/ownership. What I am against it's to clickbait your readers into "Sign up to read for free", then you sign up and find out you still have to pay. It leaves you with a poor taste impression, because of the bait and switch dark pattern right there, after you've given out your precious personal information at the sign up form.

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Good on you! Medium can go ahead and go out of business in my opinion. It makes the web worse rather than better ImE, like Pinterest.

by softwarebeware 5y ago

ycombinete 5y ago
I’m out of the loop on this. What’s wrong with medium?
- Nextgrid 5y ago
  It tries to paywall content to recoup its millions in VC investment.
- ivanmontillam 5y ago
  Some of the greatest posts are paywalled, and the user experience for it it's terrible. The benefit of Medium is the exposure and that if you're good enough, you can actually be paid via Medium Partners Program, but on the other hand, these benefits are at the expense of decentralization and owning your content. You don't own your content when you publish on Medium. Once it happened to me that a post wasn't open to read and it claimed I could read it for free if I signed up. Then I went ahead and signed up, and it was still paywalled[0]. The experience was frustrating. [0]: https://mobile.twitter.com/IvanMontillaM/status/1348007592069627906 https://mobile.twitter.com/IvanMontillaM/status/134800759206...
  - jpalomaki 5y ago
    Could it be that the possibility of making some money with the content actually encourages people to create better content?
    - ivanmontillam 5y ago
      Yes, I'm not against profitting off your content, though you can make money with your own blog as well, with the upfront cost of having to build your own audience, of course. I'm not saying it's easy, just saying it's also possible without the need giving away your content rights/ownership. What I am against it's to clickbait your readers into "Sign up to read for free", then you sign up and find out you still have to pay. It leaves you with a poor taste impression, because of the bait and switch dark pattern right there, after you've given out your precious personal information at the sign up form.