Square moves Engineering blog off Medium

Posted by mootrichard on Friday April 19, 2019 @10:10AM
from the developer.squareup.com dept.

https://developer.squareup.com/blog/

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Re:Square moves Engineering blog off Medium by Piskvorrr on Friday April 19, 2019 @10:14AM (#19699780)

The paywall had been rising for months now. I suspect that was Medium's business model all along.

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Re:Square moves Engineering blog off Medium by detaro on Friday April 19, 2019 @10:30AM (#19699911)

It'd been extremely stupid to pivot all over the place if they had a plan to do what they do now all along.

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Re:Square moves Engineering blog off Medium by mootrichard on Friday April 19, 2019 @10:16AM (#19699791)

The paywall is real. Also, a lot of quality developer oriented content is being associated with their domain, and they get to reap all the benefits.

Not a lot of incentive as a publication to continually hand that over to them.

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Re:Square moves Engineering blog off Medium by Piskvorrr on Sunday April 21, 2019 @01:45AM (#19710700)

I'm not denying it. Just that, when they started out, their response was telling: "How do you plan to run this 'awesome publishing platform' for free?" "Um ah we...ummm...magic? We'll see." I've seen that enough times to recognize digital sharecropping: first you work for free, then we monetize it for ourselves. Amazing that people dismissed that with "nah, they wouldn't dare. Why not? They're new, therefore not evil!" #wishfulThinking

TL;DR: "first dose is free"

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