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I think the secret of using Medium is not to bet the farm on it, but to put a cow or two there just to see if you might get some milk out of the deal. I feel l

I think the secret of using Medium is not to bet the farm on it, but to put a cow or two there just to see if you might get some milk out of the deal. I feel like that's the point being missed in arguments like these. Medium shouldn't be your sole content hub, and I don't think it's trying to be—it should be a tool in your toolbox to stretch the reach of your main content hub.

mooreds 13y ago
Yes, just like twitter/FB/new shiny thing, everything should be a spoke pointing back to the hub, a host (or at the least a domain) that you pay for, and therefore control. You could make the same claim about email. What happens if/when gmail starts charging? All the folks who are using google apps can move, but the people with gmail accounts have fewer (no?) options.
sbarre 13y ago
Medium allows you to freely link to your own site(s) in your profile, which is featured next to all your content, so you definitely make a good point about this. There's a happy middle ground that a savvy digital writer can find which will provide them with the advantages of a centralized platform like Medium without subjecting them to the risks of only using Medium. If they provided an API that let you syndicate your content from your personal publishing site (Wordpress, etc) into Medium, then they would increase the incentive to publish there even more.