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Man Open Source software should not post announcements like this using a blogging platform that nags you to pay to view posts. Like it's possible to dismiss the prompt and view the post (for now at least) but something about that definitely feels off.

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I don't share the popular anti-Medium sentiment. For many occasional bloggers, it makes sense; otherwise, they would post in the walled gardens of Facebook and LinkedIn, as thread-monsters on Twitter, or - not at all.

Still, for a large open-source project, there is no overhead in using a static site generator. And plenty of benefits.

The good news is that moving your stuff from Medium to such is easy. Up to you if you pick Jekyll, Gridsome, Gatsby, or something else. See (full disclaimer: my blog post) https://p.migdal.pl/blog/2022/12/new-blog-from-medium-to-gri....

I don't hate Medium, it just feels out of place here.

100% agreed. I can't stand Medium.

Much <3 to the Jupyter team. Github pages + Jekyll is performant!

Oh I really like Jupyter too. I don't want them to have a bunch of extra overhead or to roll their own blogging engine or anything - though I have experimented with Jupyter notebooks for writing simple technical blogs and it's actually pretty nice.

I have a github-hosted blog (roderick.dev) to which I woefully dedicate too little time. But adding it is as simple as writing markdown and putting a new entry in _posts.

You mean the tiny little 20px banner at the top? Hardly an issue IMO. Medium has a pretty sustainable, but different than most blogging platforms, business model.

No, the 50% of my whole window overlay from the bottom.

I'm logged in, that might be why I don't see it. That's obnoxious.

Getting paid feels off?

Does medium pay enough for that to be worthwhile?

I don't have a great view of how the organization behind Jupyter operates, but I'd be really surprised if they went with Medium as a way to support themselves. What feels off is an open source project (likely by accident or unwittingly) steering users towards giving to a for-profit company.

They are very well funded by numfocus: https://numfocus.org/, at least if going by the names of orgs that are sponsors. I don't think they require any financial benefit from posting things on medium.

It is rather the attitude or non-ideology of the Jupyter contributors/team, that causes things like posting on medium or telling people to post their questions in their discourse forum. It is also reflected in the licensing they chose for their ecosystem. Though usually they are friendly and helpful towards newcomers, it has to be said.

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