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When I visit Substack posts it still feels like Medium to me but I'm not too sure if it's just my negative bias towards these publishing platforms generally or
by heywoodlh 4y ago
When I visit Substack posts it still feels like Medium to me but I'm not too sure if it's just my negative bias towards these publishing platforms generally or an actual issue I have with Substack.
Would you be willing to share what makes Substack better or different from Medium to someone who will never use either? I just have noticed a huge amount of techies use Substack and from the name I can deduce it's geared for a more tech-focused audience.
- memorable 4y agoAs someone who has read Substack and Medium articles on mobile, Substack has less clutter than Medium, and also doesn't require you to sign up to read the rest of the article like Medium or restrict you. Also, Substack is far more reliable than Medium, as Medium articles often times failed to deliver the article, requires you to use alternative front-end like Scribe[0]. [0]: https://sr.ht/~edwardloveall/scribe/ https://sr.ht/~edwardloveall/scribe/
- chipotle_coyote 4y ago(IMO) Substack is not geared more for a tech-focused audience; the difference between it and Medium is that Substack is focused on newsletters, not blogging, and was always laser-focused on monetizing an audience. (That aspect of Medium wasn't there from the start, and Medium has thrown a lot of monetizing strategies at the wall to see if they'd stick.) Substack is arguably competing as much with Patreon as it is with Medium.