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Not to mention that it drives your users away and reduces your conversion rate by showing them a big full-screen banner in front of your posts every single time they visit the site unless they sign up for Medium themselves. Who wants to have to log in just to read some blogs?

And then there's the lack of RSS feed, so I have to actually visit each individual blog to see if there are updates instead of having them dropped nicely in my inbox with the rest of my morning read.

Medium is a garbage place for readers and content producers: please stay away from it.

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If you reblog your content on a Medium blog to take advantage of their user base it can be a great tool. Don't use it for a primary blog.

Doesn’t that destroy your SEO? I was warned 6+ years ago never to do that, but can’t recall the technical reason.

Go back far enough and I remember you would Google a key phrase, and see the first full ten pages being the exact same article, as accordance with some SEO gaming scheme.

Google quite reasonably now sees duplicate identical content as an issue, you can use the "canonical" HTML tag can be used to help it see the "real" link where several exist.

I don't know what'll happen when there are only two copies of your page, but I'd hazard a guess it'll preference medium's domain over your own in most cases.

I could imagine Google being smart enough to have some tracking between duplicates. If you include a link to your main blog on Medium perhaps it may understand "pages A and B have the same main content, but A contains an additional link to B so B is probably the true source".

Medium annotates your blog as the original so in general it can be a duplicate conyent problem but for Medium specifically they do the right thing so it isn't

The only way things change is if people don't use it; even just re-blogging verifies and supports their bad behavior.

Medium does have RSS feeds: https://medium.com/feed/<username>

Medium’s RSS feeds include comments made by the user, and there isn’t a way (I found) to only get posts.

This is so bad and so obvious that I have a hard time seeing how this isn't "supporting RSS" (for goodwill) while making sure no one uses it (for lock in).

Anyone wants to defend Medium on this one?

In case I wasn't clear, I want to read blogs, not random users comments.

Medium is OK for reblogging, but for original dev blogs Hashnode is much better if you want to use an external platform.

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