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i'm in post-production so lots of color spaces & monitorings. colorimeters drifted with age/usage, so annual check for the first two years or so is good enough but then gradually afterwards it's good practice to calibrate more frequent, and more likely there's a small fee for that. spectrometers (or spectroradiometer can't be sure) are still insanely expensive.

jesus fuck the whole discussion here is ptsd inducing... you need at least color accurate monitoring (including $25-30K calibrated monitor if you want to discuss rec2020-beyond) before judging if the output color looks "correct", and as correct here includes perceptually uniformity, then your monitor is crucial since light emitting technologies in the market are wildly varied.

this is _especially_ vital if you're not from color science & color correction industry, because that means you have no prior experience(s) with many problems & implications faced in the last 30 years of say, film post-production, which might have seen or solved some of these newly experienced "problems", which might've been caused by hardware choice(s) for example.

as post production guy living outside US/EU, a decade or so ago i was surprised that colorimeter was supposed to be regularly calibrated by another, more expensive, device.

> Interestingly, this led to a convergence with certain principles of modern web design. For instance, I counted out the total characters in a few full lines from the first edition of Hortus. They average roughly 35 to 45 characters across, which is what contemporary designers recommend for mobile view on websites.

it's almost like designers have figure shits out before web design came about.. oh wait, they actually did. a long time ago. print medium is old as fuck. i've learned & worked on them for print mastering before `internet` was a word that people spoke in daily life.

claiming to be historian professor but acting as if websites are the reference point is hillarious, you're just another tech fanboy.

on related note: any people in design related fields within tech companies ignoring graphic design & "finding" design principles are just another version of douchetechbros

Is it dying? I genuinely don't know.

I just had a flash of epiphany, I think the main reason for Medium's popularity is it's viewed as just another social network, so a perception that if you use it then you'll have much (readily available) bigger audience than using Wordpress/blogspot/etc. It's the reddit of blogging platform. The others like dev.to or hackernoon are only popular to a niche like techies & developers because that's their targets, but Medium aims to general public.

That is what I thought as well, I also have no idea why Medium is so popular still aside from the initial hype of being "a good experience" for writing.

> Don't get me wrong, I don't like Medium but I think HN users are not target users for Medium.

When it comes to the purpose of understanding why Medium is popular or why it haven't been replaced yet, imho the question that matters is "who uses Medium and why?". So I think whether HN users is a demographic target or not is less important than the measurement of who amplified Medium's usage, or some variation of that. Like if large portion of reddit users are using Medium, then how significant would content traffic from HN would be, comparatively? Especially since there's so many negative sentiments towards Medium in articles/posts shared here over the years.

> I never heard any non-tech person complaining about Medium.

Yeah, that might be a part of the reason on the answer of why there's no Medium killer yet. I also wonder what their users demography is like, or specifically related to your reply, how popular is Medium among non-tech crowds compared to techies? I think it's safe to say some portion of cryptocurrency enthusiasts/amateurs are using Medium to build an audience. Where do they fall into, should they be considered non-tech or tech savvy?

No, I mean killer. An obvious, popular choice for replacing whatever Medium offered.

> Does there need to be?

Result from https://hn.algolia.com/?q=medium seems like a _yes_ to me. I also notice that lots of data science people for example is still oblivious that many despises Medium, so they continue to use Medium to build a community. That's a loss considering how hostile Medium has been to readers.