Medium.com is still up and running so it hasn't failed exactly, but it's not the best platform to go to anymore when it comes to blogging.
The post quality has deteriorated, and it feels like I'm reading the same posts over and over again. Not to mention the stupid paywall which is infuriating.
Why did Medium end up like this? In the beginning it was pretty good but then it started to wither. Is there any way for a platform like Medium to keep up with high quality posts while also paying their writers well?
Substack has done a good job at competing in the blogging market but it's different from Medium. Medium is more of a social blogging platform while Substack is more of a newsletter platform. Substack doesn't have an algorithm that recommends you content, but instead shows you exactly who you follow. This is nice, but I can't deny that I also like finding new content through a recommendation engine, which Medium also sucks at.
Medium articles have a very high priority on Google search results. But almost all articles from medium.com are showing an "upgrade" button and if you do not buy their membership you can not continue reading.
I think world needs a website that allows you to write and read for free, but works like medium.
Medium is awesome because of
It allows us to write efficiently
It allows us to create new publications. (This is the power of it)
It allows us to customize publications and make the page a little bit our-like.
But, it is paid. (Until you use some illegal softwares like browser extensions to bypass)
So, I checked the internet whether there's some alternatives to medium and found this out. https://beebom.com/medium-alternatives/ But, any of this doesn't do the job clean as medium does.
So, Is it the time to create an open-source publications website? Or is there really one?
I try to keep an active habit of writing. Often just for my self but also to share interesting things and "grow my personal brand" and all that. I've always preferred to host my own blog as opposed to a service like Medium, but I've seen more and more people and begin to use it.
Do the network effects and other parts of Medium actually increase readership just by virtue of posting there vs a personal self hosted blog?
I hope this article will serve those who are struggling with their side-projects and are looking for some motivation. Its not easy to keep going when you don't see the end in sight, but I guarantee you that if you just keep going, the end of the road is there waiting for you!
Whenever I generated an html from markdown, I have the urge to do some final touch on page (adjusting line hight, making first letter bigger...), instead of just relying on the built-in theme that tool provided.
I was wondering would you favor a round-trip markdown/html editing experience, where you can focus on writing in markdown, and visually style the page as in medium.com then generate the final html page ?
Something like this: http://www.visual-marks.com/en/demo
Disclosure: I created this MVP, trying to verify if the above-mentioned tool does have value to you all.
HN is always filled with great Medium.com links. But for whatever reason, in Firefox 21.0 on my Mac OS 10.7.5 (MacBook Air), every page on their site takes several seconds to load. It always felt like a bug and no other browser on my computer has this slowness. So I did a little digging and some binary-search-like process of elimination to find the culprit.
I verified this by downloading their only two CSS resources locally and along with an HTML page from their site. I edited the HTML to point to my local CSS from their CDN and could reproduce the slowness every time (loading from my local SSD!). When I remove ".wf-loading .post-field.body," from the above-mentioned CSS, the page loads instantly.
I figure I could dig some more to see how that CSS class is being used any why it's being used. But I figure this is a good task for someone at Medium.com ... of course this may be a Mozilla bug. And the real defect may be in something that's slow prior to changing visibility from hidden. Anyhow, if a developer at either organization could fix this, I'd greatly appreciate it. Maybe some others experience this same bug.
I am attracted to the visual nature of the site and the ease at posting content -- which I do often for Aha.io But the reality is that posts that drive 15K views elsewhere drive 50 there. Do you read Medium.com? If not, why?
Medium keeps making steps that push me away as a developer.
What alternate sites are there for developers? I'm particularly interested in the network effect where you can post something and people interested in that topic would see your article.
There used to be https://tech.pro but they closed up shop years ago.
It seems there really is only Medium in this space?
The post quality has deteriorated, and it feels like I'm reading the same posts over and over again. Not to mention the stupid paywall which is infuriating.
Why did Medium end up like this? In the beginning it was pretty good but then it started to wither. Is there any way for a platform like Medium to keep up with high quality posts while also paying their writers well?
Substack has done a good job at competing in the blogging market but it's different from Medium. Medium is more of a social blogging platform while Substack is more of a newsletter platform. Substack doesn't have an algorithm that recommends you content, but instead shows you exactly who you follow. This is nice, but I can't deny that I also like finding new content through a recommendation engine, which Medium also sucks at.