Medium used to be great for me as an author because I didn't need to care about hosting, spam filtering, tinkering with themes, keeping wordpress up to date and

Medium used to be great for me as an author because I didn't need to care about hosting, spam filtering, tinkering with themes, keeping wordpress up to date and similar things. I could just write. That was in contrast to managing wordpress on my own web server. But I've always had fewer reads on Medium than on my own blog even if my articles seem to have about as good SEO, which makes me think there is a stigma. Also, my more technical articles that dive into the subject matter more deeply have attracted some feedback that they're boring, too long, and too technical on Medium. I have not received such feedback when people were reading the articles on my own wordpress site. Medium seems to have a stigma for shallow content, but some of its readers also could have an expectation for that style of content. It's unfortunate that Medium has developed this perception of it. Migrating content between platforms takes time and is difficult. Maintaining my own blog CMS and web server also involves time associated with infosec and fixing technical issues when they arise. But at least my own website will never become "another Medium" unlike any other mainstream platform I could go to, I suppose.