Why medium.com?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6232512

by ForFreedom • 13 years ago

10 8 13 years ago

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Why are people going there, how are people getting attracted to medium?

hjvhlkcjk• 13 years ago

Its clean.

illyism• 13 years ago

Yes. I love the typography. It's my favorite site to read articles from when I'm on the move. It's perfectly responsive and fast enough to load articles.

bountie• 13 years ago

Why do you have to ask "why"? You can just sign up for yourself and see how the writing experience differs. Every popular service has benefits that are better understood through trying

ForFreedom• 13 years ago

I did sign up. But then signing up does not bring out what others learn or understand.

wavelander• 13 years ago

It used to be that there was REALLY good stuff posted there. A lot of the initial content there was really helpful, quite insightful. I used to hang out there everyday. The writing experience was clean; you always required a photo and the comment sys was new. It was easily cataloged and a lot of amazing writers hung out there.

That was quite recent; this June, I think.

Then it became popular. Turns out anyone who could write properly, using correct grammar, make it seem like they were thinking differently than the herd, and/or were an entrepreneur. Or want to post some fluffy pseudo-intellectual stuff.

You really have to wade through a lot of bad stuff, to get to the good ones. It started out well. But the section "Editor's Picks" already has like 2900 articles or something.

Nowadays it's more like you select the best from the week's best or the month's best.

pdog• 13 years ago

It used to be that there was REALLY good stuff posted there.

Like what?

1123581321• 13 years ago

Medium provides the illusion that anyone can be a longform article writer, and that anyone can read a deep article. In other words, it provides writers who have a deeper need to be perceived as good writers than to be good writers with an audience who have a deeper need to be perceived as reading good writing than to actually read good writing.

edotthekid• 13 years ago

Medium is awesome because it allows your work to be edited by others while you write and you are forced to put thought into it.

Why medium.com?

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