We just abandoned our blog for Medium and you probably should too

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4 points·quincyla··3 comments

I wonder in what interest areas "going to medium to read articles" works? Even following the recommended links below articles I like nearly never seems worth it, so I only touch medium articles if they come strongly recommended from the outside, so I'm apparently not interested in the things medium is good for.

Also, kind of sad to see that even an organisation like free code camp chooses a closed platform instead of forming their own community planet/aggregator/syndication-platform/... on the "open web".

Most people who are blogging are doing so to reach an audience. Though there have been several attempts to create open source implementations of tools like Medium and Twitter. They haven't attracted a significant audience. Rather than expend energy trying to build yet another open web platform, we are focusing the energy of our contributors toward making an effective open-source programming curriculum.

I know (even though there are quite few people crossposting to medium etc but keeping the canonical source on their page). I guess I just wish the world worked differently?

I mean, if a program for coding education doesn't think having people own and customize their sites is worth it, then who?

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