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I applaud that. Medium makes it far harder to get a glimpse of the actual source of the article. Take this post, for example, HN lists (baremetrics.com) as the source. If it had been published on Medium it would have listed (medium.com) which is irrelevant.

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> Medium makes it far harder to get a glimpse of the actual source of the article

This is even more worse when it comes to pinterest and the source of the image. Seeing stuff like "image source: pinterest" in articles is disgusting.

Even worse: "Source: Google Images"

Twitter does this too , when I want the link of the gif I can't get it. So I end up with a link to the twitter post

Plus if you want to see the image from search, you'll often get an obtrusive pop-up asking you to sign up.

Exactly. Medium does what's best for Medium (which is reasonable). I want to do what's best for our business.

They stated in the article that they stopped pointing the custom domain blog.baremetrics.com to Medium, if they didn't do that and posted this on Medium then the domain would still show as baremetrics.com on HN.

While true at the time, Medium no longer offers custom domains at all.

https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005579728-Custo...

They possibly found that lots of people using a custom domain were switching away from them, and they wanted to make that harder.

What on earth are they thinking??

No shit??? I started my Medium blog last year and have a custom domain. Why do you suppose they are getting rid of their best feature? Who the hell is going to want to host their blog on someone else's domain??? WTF?

>Who the hell is going to want to host their blog on someone else's domain

You mean like all those folks who blog on Blogger.com addresses?

wow i had no idea they did this! this was one of the reasons Basecamp felt able to move over. Now, if you haven't done it already, you can't. It's all medium.com's content.

Damn! Why did they stop?

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