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> Will I/my articles get negativity within dev and tech communities because they are written in Medium? In short: Yes. Medium has earned a negative reputation.
by lynndotpy 4y ago
> Will I/my articles get negativity within dev and tech communities because they are written in Medium?
In short: Yes. Medium has earned a negative reputation.
This is due in part to the low-quality Medium articles which rank high on Google and DuckDuckGo. This builds in "ignore Medium articles" as a useful heuristic.
More importantly, I cannot be sure if I will be allowed to read a Medium article without making an account.
Their pricing model is unclear and their ToS is unagreeable, and so far, nothing has incentivized me to compromise here and make a Medium account.
- forgotpwd16 4y ago>I cannot be sure if I will be allowed to read a Medium article True. Every time I've clicked on Medium link the question that I've in mind, higher even than the "will I waste my time?", is "will it allow me to read it?".
- lynndotpy 4y agoYes! And what’s worse, is each article counts towards some free-article limit. I would only click on a Medium article if I was referred to it directly from a trusted source, and I save them to PDF before I continue reading them