<story><title>Medium is not the home for your ideas</title><url>https://hulry.com/medium-vs-own-blog/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joelrunyon</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been yelling about this for years, but please start &amp;amp; own your own blog.&lt;p&gt;Use webflow, ghost or whatever you like, but wordpress is good enough for most people.&lt;p&gt;HN audience can likely handle their own, but if ease-of-setup is an issue - I created StartABlog.com to help people do this (and we&amp;#x27;ll actually set up your site for you for free - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;startablog.com&amp;#x2F;start&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;startablog.com&amp;#x2F;start&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;p&gt;Own your platform. Own your content. Own your voice. Use everything else as distribution methods - not core dependencies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>axegon_</author><text>I agree. Many years ago I was really happy with medium as a reader. And the feed algorithm was decent enough. By no means the perfect content but for the most part it pushed forward things I was interested in. However, the monetization model turned medium(originally a decent blogging platform) into tumblr and it was a race to the bottom from that point. Any website that asks you to register in order to read a blog post immediately goes on my blacklist.&lt;p&gt;What is annoying though is that often people who self-host their blogs make the exact same mistake. More and more often I see something that will grab my attention and when I get to the bottom of a blog post, I find something along the lines of &amp;quot;The full guide is available in my free e-book, which you can download from here&amp;quot;. And when you click &amp;quot;here&amp;quot;, you are greeted with &amp;quot;Please enter your e-mail address&amp;quot;. Sure, everyone has a spam-mail type of thing or mailinator or whatever but this is still a terrible thing to do.</text></comment>
<story><title>Medium is not the home for your ideas</title><url>https://hulry.com/medium-vs-own-blog/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joelrunyon</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been yelling about this for years, but please start &amp;amp; own your own blog.&lt;p&gt;Use webflow, ghost or whatever you like, but wordpress is good enough for most people.&lt;p&gt;HN audience can likely handle their own, but if ease-of-setup is an issue - I created StartABlog.com to help people do this (and we&amp;#x27;ll actually set up your site for you for free - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;startablog.com&amp;#x2F;start&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;startablog.com&amp;#x2F;start&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;p&gt;Own your platform. Own your content. Own your voice. Use everything else as distribution methods - not core dependencies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>badsectoracula</author><text>Another easy solution, both for hosting and ownership, is using a static site generator&amp;#x2F;editor. I like desktop-based visual WYSIWYG tools so i use Publii[0] (example[1], though i really need to write something more :-P or at least move some older articles i had in now-defunct blogs that were hosted by others). I&amp;#x27;m not a big fan of the program though (i dislike how it is based on Electron while not even taking advantage of it being based on Electron - e.g. no full WYSIWYG and not even an in-app site preview - and the UX has all the issues i dislike by modern apps like a design that pretends i&amp;#x27;m using an oversized tablet) but it is the only one that does what i want without requiring me to enter cryptic codes (ok, markdown isn&amp;#x27;t so cryptic but i really prefer using WYSIWYG tools), having inline images&amp;#x2F;galleries and some (primitive) site management while generating static HTML (though a bit too heavy and i really dislike the themes... but again, not much of a choice and the tech used to make the themes look like a PITA so i avoid touching it for now).&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;getpublii.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;getpublii.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;runtimeterror.com&amp;#x2F;devlog&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;runtimeterror.com&amp;#x2F;devlog&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>