It's easy to look at a single Medium post and think: I could throw this together with Jekyll and put it on S3 with a custom domain in about 10 minutes.
What that _misses_ is that there is a legit community that has grown up around Medium that honestly enjoys reading articles. It's long form Twitter, the community and following of each author and publication are inextricably linked with greater site. You can't replace Twitter with a static site of posts limited to 140 characters for all the same reasons you can't replace Medium so easily.
I find it maddening. I wish we were all still using RSS + Google Reader, but if a prominent a voice as DHH can get some wild multiplier of people reading his words if he types them into the box on Medium instead of onto their very well established blog, what chance do the rest of us have?
https://m.signalvnoise.com/signal-v-noise-moves-to-medium-c8...