So why the hell did you use it to write this article, then?
I wrote a tool which converts your Medium blog into a Jekyll blog, for publishers hoping to migrate:
I wrote a tool which converts your Medium blog into a Jekyll blog, for publishers hoping to migrate:
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But seriously, my guess is that the author wants you to see the things that he's talking about on the page. Like you read that the banner sucks and you can look up and see the banner and understand immediately what he's talking about without having to take his word or trust that supplied images aren't photoshopped to hell.
I have a medium blog. I've had a few posts got >10k reads within a month. Almost none of those reads came from Medium itself, but rather from the various outlets that have linked to my post, and Google.
The only reason I currently use Medium is that people are more likely to open a Medium url when it shows up in link aggregators. People trust the familiar url far more than www.mypersonalblog.me - and it'll never get blacklisted / shadowbanned on reddit.
Oh, and claps. I like the claps.
I know this is just anecdotal, but I assume anything coming from Medium is usually less worthwhile. First, the author isn't important on a Medium article. Medium is the brand, the other is someone that doesn't matter. Secondly, it's not easy to follow the author, so even if I did read the author bio at the bottom, following the author is a pain. Finally, everything the above article mentioned. Medium articles are all about playing SEO games and "Growth hacking" before good content (literally). I'll ready Medium articles, but personal blogs are far more credible every day of the week in my book.
That being said, I would be interested in how you reached the conclusion that people are more trusting of medium articles?
Really just from my own experience. I've been writing and posting content for a few years and usually I get more clicks and comments when using the medium domain. (not always but noticeably more often)
That's a good point.
Here's what Google's lighthouse sees: https://imgur.com/a/wDCIrpP
"Time to Interactive: 10+ seconds" is particularly terrible.
iphone is the worst phone ever!
-sent from my iPhone
They should fix it.
Meanwhile, on mobile one can use one of the 10s of HN client apps.
Even for code it is annoying because of the wide margins. The margins take up about 50% of the width of the screen (!)
Where do you find the most Medium users? Medium.