On: No More Medium – Build Your Own Site (2019)

[marban]

Here we go again.

People posting on Medium (or any other "platform") are seeking distribution, not a 200ms rendering performance or owning their namespace.

Also, nothing wrong with paying for content — I'm a Medium subscriber, among many other publications.

Let's discuss again when a major NYT columnist leaves for the sake of publishing with Hugo.

[cpach → marban]

Honest question: Do columnists leave NYT for Medium? (Perhaps they do, but if so I have failed to notice it.)

[marban → cpach]

I was referring to the NYT as an equiv. distro platform.

[Veen → marban]

Except it isn’t the same at all. The NYT is an edited publication, not a distribution platform.

[soniman → cpach]

https://donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/

[zimpenfish → soniman]

I mean, he "resigned under pressure"[1] over his behaviour and comments - it's not like he voluntarily upped and left the NYT for Medium.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/01/business/donald-mcneil-ne...

[pbreit → marban]

The uncertainty about whether my readers will get blocked from reading or not is a legit concern.

[cyber_kinetist → pbreit]

Well, if your target audience is HN, then you really need to worry about this. But for the majority of the (non-technical) bloggers, this isn’t the case.

[neither_color → marban]

Theyre doing that with substack, which is way less naggy than medium.

[tomc1985 → marban]

> Also, nothing wrong with paying for content — I'm a Medium subscriber, among many other publications.

There is when your publishing medium gatekeeps you for no other reason than to drive its own metrics. (Also nice humblebrag?)

Medium is scum, I hope it burns

[marban → tomc1985]

What's wrong with paying for text? I don't own a TV and I assume most people are splurging more on their cable in a single month than s/o paying for five or six web publications.

[senko → marban]

Do you get paid by Medium for your posts that others need to pay to read? (Edited: misread that you're also an author there).

In my book, it's wrong to pay if original authors don't get that payment.

[lovegoblin → senko]

> In my book, it's wrong to pay if original authors don't get that payment.

Wait, are you under the impression that the authors don't get paid?

[senko → lovegoblin]

It is my understanding that Medium will nag visitors to sign up and/or restrict access to your Medium articles even if you're not enrolled into its partner program.

Is this incorrect?