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Just letting you know I downvoted this because it contributes nothing to the conversation that we haven’t heard a million times before. Yes, Medium sucks ass. I’m sorry. I hate it too. But to see this on every. Single. Thread. involving a Medium article makes me want to pull every last goddamn hair out. The fact that it’s the top comment right now speaks to HN’s apparent inability to actually discuss the content of an article instead of a million other tangential things about the article, the most popular of which being whether or not it’s hosted on Medium.

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The venue blocks access. Linking to an inaccessible article will get complaints. That's the appropriate response.

If HN refused medium articles, this problem would solve itself. What value does medium provide to be worth losing HN as a source of traffic?

But it doesn’t, so why bring it up? Just ignore it and move on. I don’t understand why these conversations aren’t considered not germane and deleted, honestly.

Because that response works until you run out of products/services to move on to.

If half the interesting posts on HN are blocking access, it merits conversation and I'd argue a few "fuck off"s as well.

I'm not sorry that we don't delete conversation you consider boring.

Dudes, I'm not sure how to tell you this but if you want quality content without advertising, then spending money will be required at some point.

Edit: I'm rate-limited so I can't answer below. Medium pays authors through the Partner Program which is a Flattr-like interaction-based model.

Does Medium pay the authors?

Yes. Currently 100% of the subscription revenue is shared out to the authors. Obviously, there's some venture capital paying for the rest of operations right now, and the revenue share will change. But yes, in general, the point of the subscription at Medium is to pay authors and editors to get better articles.

We had plenty of good content (more, frankly) a decade or two ago when people just ran their own websites / blogs.

It’s almost like silicon valley mostly makes broken crap.

Broken records, apparently.

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