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Another Medium alternative is Papyrus: https://papyrus.so https://papyrus.so. Privacy-first, simplicity and speed are the core tenets. Export posts at any time

Another Medium alternative is Papyrus: https://papyrus.so https://papyrus.so. Privacy-first, simplicity and speed are the core tenets. Export posts at any time, send posts via newsletters, and no feature-bloat. Disclaimer: I built Papyrus because I was fed up with Medium, Wordpress and Substack.

cultofmetatron 5y ago
I saw that their content editor looks to have better support for code editing. I'm sold
- colinarms 5y ago
  Yup - we're using rich-markdown-editor for the content editor. Full support for code and syntax highlighting. GitHub: https://github.com/outline/rich-markdown-editor https://github.com/outline/rich-markdown-editor, editor demo: https://rich-markdown-editor-demo.onrender.com/?path=/story/editor--default https://rich-markdown-editor-demo.onrender.com/?path=/story/...
  - 2Gkashmiri 5y ago
    richmarkdown looks archived. do you know any active forks or an alternative?
p4bl0 5y ago
> Privacy-first, simplicity and speed are the core tenets. Export posts at any time, send posts via newsletters, and no feature-bloat. Then why oh why would you jump on the web3/NFT train?
- hiptobecubic 5y ago
  Growth?
  - coldtea 5y ago
    If you compare NFTs with the namesake medical term, then yes.
DonHopkins 5y ago
That NFT hype makes it look like yet another get-rich-quick pyramid scheme to me. Can you please clearly explain exactly what you're using NFTs for that you couldn't easily and less destructively implement some better way, without burning so much coal, causing cancer, and destroying the environment? If your business can't grow and succeed without shilling NFTs, then you don't have anything of actual value. NFTs aren't magic pixie dust that make everyone rich. Unless you're running a money laundering operation.
- ahelwer 5y ago
  Not an NFT guy but according to https://papyrusnft.io/ https://papyrusnft.io/ they're enabling non-Ethereum chains which will address the environmental concerns.
  - meowface 5y ago
    >https://papyrusnft.io https://papyrusnft.io It's good they're trying to find less environmentally-costly alternatives, but the mere existence of this domain makes the whole enterprise feel much more sketchy and greasy to me, honestly. Not to mention the content on it.
    - DonHopkins 5y ago
      What makes it even sketchier and greasier is ahelwer's spurious claim that PapyrusNFT made any claims on that site that they're "enabling non-Ethereum chains which will address the environmental concerns". And the bizarre, unfocused little Japanese company I found at the "Company" link at the bottom of the page doesn't inspire any confidence either. Scammers assume that if they just toss out a URL and say it proves something, most people won't even bother to check, and just believe them. And unfortunately that trick usually works. Even if the site actually did claim what ahelwer falsely claimed it claims, the claim that all the environmental problems will be solved "real soon now" is such a painfully tired cliché that shills and apologists make all the time, but never deliver on. It worked for Trump shilling his "incredible" health care plan that he'd reveal "real soon now", so why not apply it to shilling NFTs to the same gullible suckers? Incredible, indeed. If that's true, then why doesn't everybody just immediately stop minting NFTs and mining Proof of Work cryptocurrency and wasting so much energy and burning so much coal right now, and simply wait until the problem's solved, since the shills always claim that it will be solved "real soon now"? Can't those money-laundering pump-and-dumping spoiled brats with $300,000 to burn wait another two weeks for the bragging rights to yet another computer generated monkey cartoon?
bartread 5y ago
> Another Medium alternative is Papyrus: https://papyrus.so https://papyrus.so. Right. But even ignoring all that NFT stuff that others are commenting on, isn't your offering with Papyrus just somebody else's playground not owned by the content creator? Whereas the author has gone for a setup that fundamentally they own: they could move it anywhere, not tied to any provider, pretty easily. There are a ton of options for hosting a jekyll blog. No disrespect to what you've built with Papyrus, because it does look good, but you've completely missed the point. Isn't this post more about taking back personal ownership and control of content than ceding to yet another "platform"? Here's the third paragraph: Because I want that my content is my content and not my content on the “Medium’s hands”, plus Medium is not what was in the beginning. Some of us don't want a "Medium alternative": we want ownership and control. Papyrus might be great now but, guaranteed, if it becomes as successful as Medium, I seriously doubt it will avoid devolving into a similar mess. I'd be happy to be proven wrong. Again, with no disrespect to the quality of what you've built, in this context screw yet another company that wants to line its founders' pockets off the back of other peoples' content. I wish you well, but I don't believe what you're offering is what the author of the post is talking about (though it will no doubt suit some, and that's OK).
- giuliomagnifico 5y ago
  100% agree, I couldn’t replied better!
- dheera 5y ago
  > Whereas the author has gone for a setup that fundamentally they own: they could move it anywhere, not tied to any provider, pretty easily I haven't looked into Papyrus but there are many non-Medium platforms that let you export your data easily in standard formats. Personally my biggest issue with Medium is them imposing a paywall on my writing without giving me a decent salary for it, OR hiding my content. Not a good choice.
amelius 5y ago
> With 1000 subscribers paying $7/month, you'll earn $79,800 per year. Do you have many users who reached this goal? (What I dislike most about platforms like Medium/Youtube/AppStore is that they lure people to work for them and giving them false hope where the winner is the platform, so it would be great to see some transparency for a change, and have some actual statistics like we have in the real economy.)

cultofmetatron 5y ago

I saw that their content editor looks to have better support for code editing. I'm sold

colinarms 5y ago
Yup - we're using rich-markdown-editor for the content editor. Full support for code and syntax highlighting. GitHub: https://github.com/outline/rich-markdown-editor https://github.com/outline/rich-markdown-editor, editor demo: https://rich-markdown-editor-demo.onrender.com/?path=/story/editor--default https://rich-markdown-editor-demo.onrender.com/?path=/story/...
- 2Gkashmiri 5y ago
  richmarkdown looks archived. do you know any active forks or an alternative?

p4bl0 5y ago

> Privacy-first, simplicity and speed are the core tenets. Export posts at any time, send posts via newsletters, and no feature-bloat. Then why oh why would you jump on the web3/NFT train?

hiptobecubic 5y ago
Growth?
- coldtea 5y ago
  If you compare NFTs with the namesake medical term, then yes.

DonHopkins 5y ago

That NFT hype makes it look like yet another get-rich-quick pyramid scheme to me. Can you please clearly explain exactly what you're using NFTs for that you couldn't easily and less destructively implement some better way, without burning so much coal, causing cancer, and destroying the environment? If your business can't grow and succeed without shilling NFTs, then you don't have anything of actual value. NFTs aren't magic pixie dust that make everyone rich. Unless you're running a money laundering operation.

ahelwer 5y ago
Not an NFT guy but according to https://papyrusnft.io/ https://papyrusnft.io/ they're enabling non-Ethereum chains which will address the environmental concerns.
- meowface 5y ago
  >https://papyrusnft.io https://papyrusnft.io It's good they're trying to find less environmentally-costly alternatives, but the mere existence of this domain makes the whole enterprise feel much more sketchy and greasy to me, honestly. Not to mention the content on it.
  - DonHopkins 5y ago
    What makes it even sketchier and greasier is ahelwer's spurious claim that PapyrusNFT made any claims on that site that they're "enabling non-Ethereum chains which will address the environmental concerns". And the bizarre, unfocused little Japanese company I found at the "Company" link at the bottom of the page doesn't inspire any confidence either. Scammers assume that if they just toss out a URL and say it proves something, most people won't even bother to check, and just believe them. And unfortunately that trick usually works. Even if the site actually did claim what ahelwer falsely claimed it claims, the claim that all the environmental problems will be solved "real soon now" is such a painfully tired cliché that shills and apologists make all the time, but never deliver on. It worked for Trump shilling his "incredible" health care plan that he'd reveal "real soon now", so why not apply it to shilling NFTs to the same gullible suckers? Incredible, indeed. If that's true, then why doesn't everybody just immediately stop minting NFTs and mining Proof of Work cryptocurrency and wasting so much energy and burning so much coal right now, and simply wait until the problem's solved, since the shills always claim that it will be solved "real soon now"? Can't those money-laundering pump-and-dumping spoiled brats with $300,000 to burn wait another two weeks for the bragging rights to yet another computer generated monkey cartoon?

bartread 5y ago

> Another Medium alternative is Papyrus: https://papyrus.so https://papyrus.so. Right. But even ignoring all that NFT stuff that others are commenting on, isn't your offering with Papyrus just somebody else's playground not owned by the content creator? Whereas the author has gone for a setup that fundamentally they own: they could move it anywhere, not tied to any provider, pretty easily. There are a ton of options for hosting a jekyll blog. No disrespect to what you've built with Papyrus, because it does look good, but you've completely missed the point. Isn't this post more about taking back personal ownership and control of content than ceding to yet another "platform"? Here's the third paragraph: Because I want that my content is my content and not my content on the “Medium’s hands”, plus Medium is not what was in the beginning. Some of us don't want a "Medium alternative": we want ownership and control. Papyrus might be great now but, guaranteed, if it becomes as successful as Medium, I seriously doubt it will avoid devolving into a similar mess. I'd be happy to be proven wrong. Again, with no disrespect to the quality of what you've built, in this context screw yet another company that wants to line its founders' pockets off the back of other peoples' content. I wish you well, but I don't believe what you're offering is what the author of the post is talking about (though it will no doubt suit some, and that's OK).

giuliomagnifico 5y ago
100% agree, I couldn’t replied better!
dheera 5y ago
> Whereas the author has gone for a setup that fundamentally they own: they could move it anywhere, not tied to any provider, pretty easily I haven't looked into Papyrus but there are many non-Medium platforms that let you export your data easily in standard formats. Personally my biggest issue with Medium is them imposing a paywall on my writing without giving me a decent salary for it, OR hiding my content. Not a good choice.

amelius 5y ago

> With 1000 subscribers paying $7/month, you'll earn $79,800 per year. Do you have many users who reached this goal? (What I dislike most about platforms like Medium/Youtube/AppStore is that they lure people to work for them and giving them false hope where the winner is the platform, so it would be great to see some transparency for a change, and have some actual statistics like we have in the real economy.)