What's so special about Medium?

5 points·auggierose··6 comments

Everyday I see one ore more posts on Hacker News coming from the medium.com domain. Somebody enlighten me, what's so newsworthy about it to hear every day from it? The ranking algorithm of HN should take into account how likely it is that something great comes out of a single source every day.

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First, there is no AI ranking algorithm on HN. People vote.

Second, there does not have to be anything "newsworthy about it to hear every day from it", there just to be something newsworthy in it's POSTS.

That said, what's special about Medium is that it's a high quality, err, medium, with interesting posts that often relate to business and tech. Which makes it unavoidable to be submitted to HN.

Especially since it's a new-ish service that has started to caught on, and thus a lot of HN users are following it.

It's not a single source, it's a single publishing platform. This is like complaining that too submissions are published with WordPress. Vote based on the content of the submission, not the domain the author chose to host it on.

But not all posts using Wordpress come from wordpress.com.

A better analogue is Svbtle, which is a platform that has a lot of posts appear on HN but with custom domain names.

Thanks for the clarifications. I actually wasn't aware of what Medium is. Now I know :-)

Medium provides good quality articles, many of which fit in with what much of HN is looking to read about. What's the problem with multiple highly ranked posts coming from one domain?

There isn't. Don't be fooled.

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