<story><title>Don&apos;t Post Evergreen Content on Medium</title><url>https://bts.nomadgate.com/medium-evergreen-content</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>newscracker</author><text>As far as I&amp;#x27;m concerned, posting any content of value on any platform or service that you don&amp;#x27;t pay for and don&amp;#x27;t have a good control over is a bad idea. It doesn&amp;#x27;t matter if it&amp;#x27;s Medium or Facebook or Instagram or Quora or anything else. If it&amp;#x27;s, say, on one of the Facebook properties that puts up barriers for people not registered with them (and thus the content is not easily accessible on the open web), it&amp;#x27;s a terrible idea.&lt;p&gt;Those who value their content should (when financially feasible) ideally use paid services or paid hosting where the provider&amp;#x27;s interests and the publisher&amp;#x27;s interest are aligned.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nothrabannosir</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; Those who value their content should (when financially feasible) ideally use paid services or paid hosting where the provider&amp;#x27;s interests and the publisher&amp;#x27;s interest are aligned.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Or, when financially constrained but technologically inclined, use a custom domain on a service like Tumblr or Github, to allow migrating later down the line.&lt;p&gt;The author touches on this:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;If I had used a custom domain for my Medium publication, it wouldn&amp;#x27;t have been much of an issue. In that case, I could have just set up 301 redirects to the new articles and deleted the old ones from Medium. All the SEO juice would have been preserved, and Google would have shown the updated article in the search results.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Don&apos;t Post Evergreen Content on Medium</title><url>https://bts.nomadgate.com/medium-evergreen-content</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>newscracker</author><text>As far as I&amp;#x27;m concerned, posting any content of value on any platform or service that you don&amp;#x27;t pay for and don&amp;#x27;t have a good control over is a bad idea. It doesn&amp;#x27;t matter if it&amp;#x27;s Medium or Facebook or Instagram or Quora or anything else. If it&amp;#x27;s, say, on one of the Facebook properties that puts up barriers for people not registered with them (and thus the content is not easily accessible on the open web), it&amp;#x27;s a terrible idea.&lt;p&gt;Those who value their content should (when financially feasible) ideally use paid services or paid hosting where the provider&amp;#x27;s interests and the publisher&amp;#x27;s interest are aligned.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tpaschalis</author><text>This exactly. Companies exist to make money, and that&amp;#x27;s of course a good thing. But the way that some tech companies choose to go about that (growth at all costs, maximizing attention by clickbait, and ultimately selling whitespace for advertisments) may not be the best long-term way to do things.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s like the real-world option between choosing to publish your own little newspaper versus writing a small column in someone&amp;#x27;s else newspaper, where you have no control over.</text></comment>