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Ev Williams is a legend and his contribution to posterity is already assured, however it is hard not to conclude that he dropped the ball with Medium - which ha

Ev Williams is a legend and his contribution to posterity is already assured, however it is hard not to conclude that he dropped the ball with Medium - which had a dominant position for the written word, and yet now looks to be superceded by SubStack and - ironically - Twitter, where threading seems to be the new blogging. It's not only about the writing / reading experience, its also about audience growth. Look forward to his next project

bspear 4y ago
wahnfrieden 4y ago
We ought to be glad a rentier failed at consolidating and taking rent on access to content broadly
skinnymuch 4y ago
Screwing Noah Glass over as the Twitter founders did should never make any of them legends
- aliqot 4y ago
  Legends, like legacies, don't have to be positive.
  - skinnymuch 4y ago
    In this context, legend is being used with a positive connotation. Otherwise, I agree.
- tonystubblebine 4y ago
  I was there. Noah wasn’t screwed over.
  - skinnymuch 4y ago
    Interesting. You may have a vested interest in saying this, but not being an anonymous account does give me pause. Obv much more than an anonymous account with your position in your bio.
Alex3917 4y ago
Tik Tok is a lot closer to what Medium is doing than SubStack or Twitter. The fact that Twitter now has blogging doesn't really make it a Medium competitor. And similarly, SubStack is in a completely different business.
biztos 4y ago
I read a lot of “serious” things online, probably more than I should, and I never even remotely felt like Medium had any kind of dominant position. For a certain kind of formulaic, clickbaity, “who needs an editor” kind of content sure, it was popular, but for serious writing? Sorry, nope, not even close, not even temporarily. Substack at least can make a claim for serious journalism and opinion that’s hard to monetize elsewhere — much but not all of it heavily libertarian — but what, please, was Medium’s claim to gravity? The highlight feature?

bspear 4y ago

wahnfrieden 4y ago

We ought to be glad a rentier failed at consolidating and taking rent on access to content broadly

skinnymuch 4y ago

Screwing Noah Glass over as the Twitter founders did should never make any of them legends

aliqot 4y ago
Legends, like legacies, don't have to be positive.
- skinnymuch 4y ago
  In this context, legend is being used with a positive connotation. Otherwise, I agree.
tonystubblebine 4y ago
I was there. Noah wasn’t screwed over.
- skinnymuch 4y ago
  Interesting. You may have a vested interest in saying this, but not being an anonymous account does give me pause. Obv much more than an anonymous account with your position in your bio.

Alex3917 4y ago

Tik Tok is a lot closer to what Medium is doing than SubStack or Twitter. The fact that Twitter now has blogging doesn't really make it a Medium competitor. And similarly, SubStack is in a completely different business.

biztos 4y ago

I read a lot of “serious” things online, probably more than I should, and I never even remotely felt like Medium had any kind of dominant position. For a certain kind of formulaic, clickbaity, “who needs an editor” kind of content sure, it was popular, but for serious writing? Sorry, nope, not even close, not even temporarily. Substack at least can make a claim for serious journalism and opinion that’s hard to monetize elsewhere — much but not all of it heavily libertarian — but what, please, was Medium’s claim to gravity? The highlight feature?