I think the hate for Medium is really overstated, it's quite absurd for people wanting it to die altogether, just because it has some annoying UX. Everybody wa

I think the hate for Medium is really overstated, it's quite absurd for people wanting it to die altogether, just because it has some annoying UX. Everybody wanting to mess with self hosting a blog very much should do so, but to some it's just a minor side thing of low importance, and in that case, Medium serves a purpose. It's free and you can even link your domain to it, also for free. The writing experience is quite good and you can publish your articles for free or behind the paywall. There's no ads. We really live in the age of entitlement to not be thankful that it is an option, even if it's not for you. Instead, we wish for it to "die". Subjective as it is, the new blog is harder to read and looks worse than the new one. It has no internal search. It won't feed into any recommendation engine, there's no audience management, feature pages, newsletters (I assume) and a whole bunch of things you get at Medium. It's now impossible to follow the blog automatically, except for the very small group of people still using RSS readers. So what have you achieved exactly? You spent time to make something worse, not better. If it's just for technical tinkering, fine. If it's to "liberate your content", this too is a vague claim. Medium doesn't delete content and has an export option allowing you to back up posts should you want to. Again, this is not a love letter to Medium.