Am I the only one who doesn't think Medium is some horrible, evil thing? It's still a solid, pretty, functional, and easy blogging platform for people who just want to get something out there. It doesn't do much to allow authors to distinguish themselves from the pack; I think this is left up for the author to do, if they want or even care, via other social media, like Twitter. It seems there's a general trend away from a single, all-inclusive social platform like Facebook towards a distributed system of smaller pieces which can fit together.
It wouldn't be my blogging platform of choice, but I'm the sort of person who'd go to all the trouble of hand-crafting a personal website for something like this, just for the fun of it. Medium is obviously for people who want the opposite experience.
None of this is to say that Medium doesn't have its share of problems, but I think it is at least decent from the blogger's perspective and IMHO pretty good from the reader's perspective.
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Am I the only one who doesn't think Medium is some horrible, evil thing? It's still a solid, pretty, functional, and easy blogging platform for people who just want to get something out there. It doesn't do much to allow authors to distinguish themselves from the pack; I think this is left up for the author to do, if they want or even care, via other social media, like Twitter. It seems there's a general trend away from a single, all-inclusive social platform like Facebook towards a distributed system of smaller pieces which can fit together.
It wouldn't be my blogging platform of choice, but I'm the sort of person who'd go to all the trouble of hand-crafting a personal website for something like this, just for the fun of it. Medium is obviously for people who want the opposite experience.
None of this is to say that Medium doesn't have its share of problems, but I think it is at least decent from the blogger's perspective and IMHO pretty good from the reader's perspective.