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by tonystubblebine 4y ago
Sounds like you worked there and had a bad experience. Sorry to hear that. It’s somewhat different now.
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by tonystubblebine 4y ago
The best of Medium is better than the best of the NYTimes and isn’t fungible at all. That’s not refuting what you see. To get those gems you see too many me too articles. You are right.
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by tonystubblebine 4y ago
Hah. You are right.
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by tonystubblebine 4y ago
The NYTimes digital subscription is doing north of $800M/year. That’s successful in my book.
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by tonystubblebine 4y ago
Exactly. The whole reason we chose a subscription business model was so that we could focus on quality over clicks. I hope you are seeing some improvements. A lot more soon.
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by tonystubblebine 4y ago
Great service. It's our stagnation that created any confusion or sense of competition. Our sweet spot is completely different than theirs.
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by tonystubblebine 4y ago
The NYTimes does it. And that's the thing think we got wrong: the pay off for what is behind the paywall has to be higher.
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by tonystubblebine 4y ago
Most other metered paywalls move the paywall much lower in the page. That would be a simple way--let you get 1/3 of the way so you are more confident in what you are getting. Or move the location of the paywall. In general though, we l
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by tonystubblebine 4y ago
It's been frustratingly slow because our recs system is sprawling. Your main feed is populated differently than the read-more section you are referencing. Plus author behavior lags incentives. We actually had a clickbait about MILFs on
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by tonystubblebine 4y ago
How's the new management doing?
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by tonystubblebine 4y ago
Never had a valuation that high.
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by tonystubblebine 4y ago
You aren't alone. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33223222
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by tonystubblebine 4y ago
I'm Medium's CEO and I left a longer answer down below about what I think went wrong. But I also think your summary is about right. Every startup needs to choose a business model eventually and we botched the rollout of ours. The
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by tonystubblebine 4y ago
I'm Medium's current CEO as of last July. I actually pay a lot of attention to this sentiment on Hacker News. For example, I've bookmarked and often share this recent HN poll where 88% of people here think there's a nega
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by tonystubblebine 4y ago
I actually think there's a bit of a split at the elite level. Eliud Kipchoge, WR in marathon, seems to only be doing one hard faster than race pace workout each week. Call that the HIT. The others are slow or race pace. What actually s
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by tonystubblebine 4y ago
99% of writing on medium is longer than 4000 characters.
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by tonystubblebine 4y ago
To me, ActivityPub support is for a different goal and that's because I see short form and medium-form (i.e. blogs) as separate use cases in practice. Mastodon represents a short form corner of the fediverse. To participate in this cor
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by tonystubblebine 4y ago
Definitely!
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by tonystubblebine 4y ago
Yes, we (Medium) think federation is a feature and so we have to find our niche. That makes sense to me as a business: just find something valuable to do and do it well. I'd guess that there will end up being a GMail sized instance, bu
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by tonystubblebine 4y ago
Yes. I think what we (Medium) are doing is more along the lines of being a tools/service provider. But my understanding is that all media orgs are thinking about launching their own instance. That would be a form of verified accounts a
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by tonystubblebine 4y ago
(Medium CEO here) Definitely a possibility. Where we ended up landing is that Mastodon is culturally short form. From prior experience just syndicating into a short form ecosystem is kind of lame even if the ActivityPub protocol supports it
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by tonystubblebine 4y ago
I agree this is where things are headed. Is it a sure thing that Elon maintains control in a restructuring?
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This is what .plan files we’re back in the day.
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by tonystubblebine 4y ago
Running a test to see how well this performs in Google. IMO, this is as good as your average content mill article. Hopefully, Google can tell the difference though because this is basically just trite nonsense and doesn't have any real
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How to plan an offsite as written by AI(coachtony.medium.com)
1 points by tonystubblebine 4y ago|1 comments
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Booz Allen ticketmastered America’s public lands(doctorow.medium.com)
226 points by tonystubblebine 4y ago|2 comments
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by tonystubblebine 4y ago
I was just coming here to say this. I've been part of the community since 2007, which feels like a really, really long time. But I've learned a lot, both from the submissions and the comments. This is probably the only place on th
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Goodbye LinkedIn. A new era of hiring startups has arrived(neighborhoodstudios.medium.com)
2 points by tonystubblebine 4y ago|1 comments
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The Data-Informed Manifesto(joulee.medium.com)
1 points by tonystubblebine 4y ago|0 comments
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by tonystubblebine 4y ago
I look at this through the lens of the San Francisco public schools. When I went to the magnet high school there, Lowell, they had explicit race based standards. We all got scores out of 70 based on our standardized tests and middle school

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