<story><title>No More Medium – Build Your Own Site (2019)</title><url>https://nomedium.dev/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>smoldesu</author><text>For what it&amp;#x27;s worth, you&amp;#x27;re currently losing &lt;i&gt;my&lt;/i&gt; discoverability by using a platform that I don&amp;#x27;t. Me (and many, many other people) will get redirected to your site, see a big intrusive banner on our screen, and leave. It doesn&amp;#x27;t matter if you were about to disclose the panacea or secrets to life, there&amp;#x27;s simply no writing on Medium that&amp;#x27;s worth the royal asspain of stepping through your digital metal detector.&lt;p&gt;You&amp;#x27;re increasing the amount of complexity in your reader&amp;#x27;s stack to reduce the complexity of your stack. Much like how nobody clicks the &amp;#x27;Reddit is better in the app!&amp;#x27; button, you should be conscious that most people nope-out when they click a link and don&amp;#x27;t get your article.</text></item><item><author>aoleinik</author><text>I write on medium [1] and I don’t think switching to a stand alone website would be good for me at all.&lt;p&gt;Medium has “publications” where my work gets sent out to hundreds of readers that are reading about a topic, not necessarily from me - I’m not notable at all in the field so I’d have a rather hard time getting people to subscribe to __me__.&lt;p&gt;If I were to make my own website, I’d lose a ton of discoverability.&lt;p&gt;Plus, the monetization on medium is fantastic. Nowhere else would I get that return per view - I’m currently averaging around 25k views a month with a $500 return.&lt;p&gt;I do have my gripes with the platform, but in my case, Medium is the worst platform for writing besides all the rest.
 [1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;anth-oleinik.medium.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;anth-oleinik.medium.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shados</author><text>Yes, they&amp;#x27;re losing yours, but that&amp;#x27;s a small cost to pay vs NO ONE discovering their stuff.&lt;p&gt;Basically what this comes down to is that there&amp;#x27;s a market for something like Medium&amp;#x27;s earlier days, back when it was decent. Someone just needs to figure out a better way to monetize it, while still having the mind share Medium used to have.</text></comment>
<story><title>No More Medium – Build Your Own Site (2019)</title><url>https://nomedium.dev/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>smoldesu</author><text>For what it&amp;#x27;s worth, you&amp;#x27;re currently losing &lt;i&gt;my&lt;/i&gt; discoverability by using a platform that I don&amp;#x27;t. Me (and many, many other people) will get redirected to your site, see a big intrusive banner on our screen, and leave. It doesn&amp;#x27;t matter if you were about to disclose the panacea or secrets to life, there&amp;#x27;s simply no writing on Medium that&amp;#x27;s worth the royal asspain of stepping through your digital metal detector.&lt;p&gt;You&amp;#x27;re increasing the amount of complexity in your reader&amp;#x27;s stack to reduce the complexity of your stack. Much like how nobody clicks the &amp;#x27;Reddit is better in the app!&amp;#x27; button, you should be conscious that most people nope-out when they click a link and don&amp;#x27;t get your article.</text></item><item><author>aoleinik</author><text>I write on medium [1] and I don’t think switching to a stand alone website would be good for me at all.&lt;p&gt;Medium has “publications” where my work gets sent out to hundreds of readers that are reading about a topic, not necessarily from me - I’m not notable at all in the field so I’d have a rather hard time getting people to subscribe to __me__.&lt;p&gt;If I were to make my own website, I’d lose a ton of discoverability.&lt;p&gt;Plus, the monetization on medium is fantastic. Nowhere else would I get that return per view - I’m currently averaging around 25k views a month with a $500 return.&lt;p&gt;I do have my gripes with the platform, but in my case, Medium is the worst platform for writing besides all the rest.
 [1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;anth-oleinik.medium.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;anth-oleinik.medium.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>1123581321</author><text>Your observation is worth nothing because you also aren’t reading his personal blog, or wherever he would publish instead. You don’t even try to suggest other places you’d happily read.</text></comment>