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Re:Renewing Medium’s focus by rayalez on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @05:45PM (#13322832)
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.

Re:Renewing Medium’s focus by zokier on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @06:01PM (#13322944)
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