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How would that work for existing authors? Would they be forced onto paid plans? Would their old articles still be available? Culling existing free plans is not
by duckmysick 4y ago
How would that work for existing authors? Would they be forced onto paid plans? Would their old articles still be available? Culling existing free plans is not popular, as we saw with Slack and Heroku.
> So why would a writer do that? To build a reputation that can be turned into money elsewhere, like being able to charge higher consulting fees.
Why would a writer do that specifically on Medium and not on, say, Substack?
Maybe they really have a unique and loyal audience. It's hard to say without knowing their traffic data. But if a lot of their readers come from social media, does it matter to the reader if the shared link leads to medium.com or substack.com?
- WalterBright 4y ago> Why would a writer do that specifically on Medium If it made Medium the go-to place for people looking for high quality content that was free of SEO spammy articles, that would be an excellent reason. Heck, I write articles and I'd pay to have my article posted on a well-regarded site. But I see no point to posting it on free sites with a reputation for low quality. There's an old saying "it's free and worth every penny". Instead I post them on sites under my control, like digitalmars.com, where I can control the quality of the site.