Re:Ask HN: What makes Medium a better/worse media outlet?
by git-pull on Thursday February 22, 2018 @02:24PM
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This may not be what you're looking for, but Google seems to prefer Medium content.
I think it could be natural. A lot of smart interlinking of posts, clustering different niches, and posts being spread across social websites.
I can even give a direct example. My book The Tao of tmux is available for free online. It used to be in the google top 10 for tmux. Now, a newer article on HackerNoon is up at the very top: https://hackernoon.com/a-gentle-introduction-to-tmux-8d784c4...
I think people just like the Medium posts, heh. They made a publishing platform that attracted talented writers, and the feedback loop with readers seems to be encouraging it to grow.
Medium actually hampers my personal efforts since I keep my own static website and wrote a custom blog-like application I post. I feel I may end up having to move writing efforts there since the velocity there is so big.
P.S. NYTimes digital team uses Medium: https://open.nytimes.com/ I think that demonstrates to me people just like the product and it's going to self-perpetuate until someone devises something better.
I think it could be natural. A lot of smart interlinking of posts, clustering different niches, and posts being spread across social websites.
I can even give a direct example. My book The Tao of tmux is available for free online. It used to be in the google top 10 for tmux. Now, a newer article on HackerNoon is up at the very top: https://hackernoon.com/a-gentle-introduction-to-tmux-8d784c4...
I think people just like the Medium posts, heh. They made a publishing platform that attracted talented writers, and the feedback loop with readers seems to be encouraging it to grow.
Medium actually hampers my personal efforts since I keep my own static website and wrote a custom blog-like application I post. I feel I may end up having to move writing efforts there since the velocity there is so big.
P.S. NYTimes digital team uses Medium: https://open.nytimes.com/ I think that demonstrates to me people just like the product and it's going to self-perpetuate until someone devises something better.