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Re:Why I left Medium and moved back to my own domain by Entangled on Sunday July 30, 2017 @12:49PM (#14886752)
Medium is a blog platform and a news aggregator. I use it mostly for consuming news by using tags of interest. Good luck with that writing your own blog on your own server. Oh, and the daily newsletter is a delightful joy.

Discoverability is key to the success of Medium.

https://medium.com/tag/swift/latest

https://medium.com/tag/kotlin/latest

https://medium.com/tag/python/latest

https://medium.com/tag/java/latest

Or by topic

https://medium.com/tag/design/latest

https://medium.com/tag/UX/latest

https://medium.com/tag/AI/latest

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Re:Why I left Medium and moved back to my own domain by cupcakestand on Sunday July 30, 2017 @03:08PM (#14887337)
Why should I discover content on Medium?

This job is done by HN and Reddit and unfortunately Facebook if I am on FB. I don't have time to get sucked in another feed.

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Re:Why I left Medium and moved back to my own domain by corobo on Sunday July 30, 2017 @05:05PM (#14887816)
Specific content. For example I follow the Laravel tag on medium, I've not seen anything regarding Laravel on HN in a fair while.
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Re:Why I left Medium and moved back to my own domain by ben_jones on Monday July 31, 2017 @02:01AM (#14889804)
Because most aggregators become biased and limited silos either intentionally to sell advertising or otherwise via community moderation, power users, etc. The same stuff always bubbles to the top or is buried at the bottom. Variety is key.
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