Re:Ask HN: Why does anyone still use Medium?
by pier25 on Saturday January 18, 2020 @02:25PM
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I started writing in Medium because it was easy. Unlike WP it requires no maintenance and it looks good.
After what happened with FreeCodeCamp I decided to not write there anymore.
> “freeCodeCamp is the biggest publication on Medium. Our open source community sends Medium about 5% of their total traffic. But over the past year, Medium has become more aggressive toward us. They have pressured us to put our articles behind paywalls. We refused. So they tried to buy us. (Which makes no sense. We are a public charity.) We refused. Then they started threatening us with a lawyer.”
After what happened with FreeCodeCamp I decided to not write there anymore.
> “freeCodeCamp is the biggest publication on Medium. Our open source community sends Medium about 5% of their total traffic. But over the past year, Medium has become more aggressive toward us. They have pressured us to put our articles behind paywalls. We refused. So they tried to buy us. (Which makes no sense. We are a public charity.) We refused. Then they started threatening us with a lawyer.”
https://reclaimthenet.org/freecodecamp-leaves-medium/