off-topic: how/why is medium still around with their very aggressive techniques? They started as a minimalist blogging platform, and once they acquired the content, they started putting paywalls in front of their users' content.
not so sure about that. alexa stats and every other stat show them on a downward trend
Because it pays out well for popular posts and doesn't involve ads. I made a few hundred dollars off one that I published there over the summer.
I don’t subscribe to Medium yet but I started using Apple News because the ad-driven model has led to publisher pages that are near unreadable / terrible UX. So I won’t be surprised if Medium is successful.
I don't even know how to find articles on Medium. There used to be a whole bunch of articles listed on the front page. Now it just seems like one big advertisement.