Re:Medium is a poor choice for blogging
by chipotle_coyote on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @01:16PM
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> But in practice, is Medium currently helping people build audiences in a significant way?
I actually don't think Medium ever helped people build audiences in a significant way, with relatively few exceptions: Medium has always been structured to build an audience first for Medium and second for "publications" hosted on Medium. But it's never been particularly good at building audiences for individual authors.
While I'm aware this is anecdotal, there appears to be very little correlation between the number of followers one has and the number of views any given article gets: you can have several hundred followers and have some articles that get thousands of views (usually because they were included in someone else's publication or linked from somewhere else on the web), and others that get maybe a couple dozen views.
> I don't personally see any data that suggests Medium is driving any traffic to my content.
It is not. Readers that start on Medium by and large stay on Medium.
I actually don't think Medium ever helped people build audiences in a significant way, with relatively few exceptions: Medium has always been structured to build an audience first for Medium and second for "publications" hosted on Medium. But it's never been particularly good at building audiences for individual authors.
While I'm aware this is anecdotal, there appears to be very little correlation between the number of followers one has and the number of views any given article gets: you can have several hundred followers and have some articles that get thousands of views (usually because they were included in someone else's publication or linked from somewhere else on the web), and others that get maybe a couple dozen views.
> I don't personally see any data that suggests Medium is driving any traffic to my content.
It is not. Readers that start on Medium by and large stay on Medium.