Re:Renewing Medium’s focus
by nawitus on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @04:17PM
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Your analogy is flawed. There were and are plenty of other "create a blog with a few clicks that you don't have to host" services.
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Re:Renewing Medium’s focus
by gabrielizaias on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @05:15PM
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Woosh! He's making a satire comment about when Dropbox was first introduced to HN.
thus implying that the parent post made the same mistake when judging Medium, which nawitus (IMHO rightfully) thinks is a flawed comparison. No "Whoosh".
Re:Renewing Medium’s focus
by gabrielizaias on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @05:59PM
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Fair enough.
Well, maybe there's nothing wrong with being the best or the most popular one of them? What do people expect Medium to do, cure cancer?
It's a blogging platform. A good one. Someone wanted to make it, and he built it, and now it's successful.
Maybe it didn't revolutionize the way we make toasts, but it's a solid incremental improvement over the alternatives. So was facebook, so was iphone, so were most of the other things people have made.
With statements such as "To build a platform that defined a new model for media on the internet." it is not completely unreasonable to expect bit more than more of the same
There were - perhaps it's than just that. See this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13322075
Namely "Medium makes it really easy to post something that looks good across devices etc., and has good sharing integration"