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> But instead of incentivizing premium content we spent the subscription revenue to pay people to flood us with low quality click bait and content mill articles
by bachmeier 4y ago
> But instead of incentivizing premium content we spent the subscription revenue to pay people to flood us with low quality click bait and content mill articles.
I suspect these things, but I seldom get confirmation. My view is that Medium articles are low-effort crap that are not even worth the effort to click the link (I stopped clicking those links entirely quite a while back). I wish they'd put half the effort into the article content as they put into getting me to click.
I hope you get it turned around; this is largely a market that isn't served. Subscribing to newsletters is pretty dang expensive with anything less than a FAANG salary.
- Nifty3929 4y agoInstead of a subscription, would you pay per article? Like maybe 5 cents or 25 cents or something? Assume it's frictionless. No account with the site, no login, etc. You read the article and magically X cents is removed from your bank account. Would you do it?
- gonehome 4y agoThat’s the opposite of what I want. It’s directly incentivizing clickbait headline crap based on views. If I click on something and hate it I’d be annoyed I paid them anything. Substack’s model is better. I pay for quality writing I like that deserves my attention.
- culopatin 4y agoAbsolutely not. I finish probably 15% of the articles I encounter. I click links all the time. If that’s what I’ll pay, I’ll expect much more expertise than some random dude writing “Vue vs X” or whatever. I’d rather pay for convenience. Like you can read all the articles but to subscribe to someone you have to be a premium user. Basically like Spotify did it.
- charlie0 4y agoLike with...cryptocurrency?