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Re:Renewing Medium’s focus by quincyla on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @08:03PM (#13323788)
For what it's worth, FreeCodeCamp.com has 1/3 the page views that Medium has, with only 3 full time staff. https://www.similarweb.com/website/freecodecamp.com?competit...

I love Medium and I hope it succeeds. It sounds like their headcount was substantially higher than it needed to be and that this layoff was the right move.

I wish Ev had mentioned all the additional facts that are in this article by one of Medium's investors: https://500ish.com/long-medium-b9ddfe2c3a0a#.ch2benant

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Re:Renewing Medium’s focus by walterbell on Thursday January 05, 2017 @04:59AM (#13325984)
So what's the alternative to ads? Are they going to try subscriptions or micro payments (like Brave's browser)?
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Re:Renewing Medium’s focus by thrillgore on Thursday January 05, 2017 @04:11PM (#13331435)
Really the only other option besides those two would be content advertising (Sponsored Articles)... ick
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Re:Renewing Medium’s focus by dilemma on Thursday January 05, 2017 @07:25PM (#13332811)
The alternative is syndicating content to other publishers like AP does.
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