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Re:Medium is not the home for your ideas by joosters on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @04:44AM (#23915105)
Even though Medium reinstated my profile, I stopped publishing on the platform and moved to my blog again.

There's some history re-writing going on here. The tweet from Medium about unblocking his account was in July 2018 - the author replied with 'Happens. No worries. Thanks for resolving the issue guys', so they clearly weren't too bothered about this at the time. They then went on to post over ten further articles on Medium over the next six months - again, hardly the sign of someone annoyed by the platform. (for contrast, they had only written one earlier article in the year, so his output increased after the issue)

...and now in July 2020, two years on, they have decided that this was the thing that stopped them using Medium? How is this anything but a lie?

Re:Medium is not the home for your ideas by mastazi on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @05:03AM (#23915210)
You can be annoyed at something and take action after some time, what’s so strange about it? I wanted to get off Gmail for a long time but it took me a while before I actually did it. Migrating off a platform is not something you do in the blink of an eye, there is always friction involved for obvious reasons
Re:Medium is not the home for your ideas by rahulchowdhury on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @07:50AM (#23915971)
Just to clear the air here. The posts that you are talking about were either for company blogs, or casual "I don't care if they live or die" kind of posts.

At around the same time, I started working on a small blogging platform of my own but gave up and started using SSGs like Gatsby, Jekyll, etc.

More on the move here: https://hulry.com/back-to-wordpress/

Hope this clears things up. :)

Re:Medium is not the home for your ideas by joosters on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @11:34AM (#23918117)
Hey, thanks for the reply, and I should apologise to you: While it still seems to me that the cause, effect & justification for leaving medium seems strange, I didn't mean to accuse you of intentionally lying or deceiving people in your article, sorry for the terrible wording.
Re:Medium is not the home for your ideas by amelius on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @05:12AM (#23915254)
Well, I can fully understand this if they were still making money on the platform.

Like if your boss is an asshole, you might not want to shame them until you found a new job and secured your income.

Re:Medium is not the home for your ideas by ACow_Adonis on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @05:09AM (#23915239)
...or maybe...tweets aren't an accurate representation of an author's mindset? Especially ones in a customer-company relations context responding to a recent account blocking/unblocking? I know I'm always polite when communicating in that context (it does little good to respond in a hostile fashion even if you think the person on the other end is the lowest of the low).

i mean, the blog post might not honest be either, maybe there is another motive, but i'd put the company-directed communications and tweets at about the bottom of the authenticity/trust hierarchy myself.

Re:Medium is not the home for your ideas by syshum on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @09:31AM (#23916748)
>>so they clearly weren't too bothered about this at the time.

I dont know if that is true, simply because they did not rant and rave like it common with cancel culture today does not mean they were not bothered

It almost never results in a good outcome to tell your current service provider your intentions to leave before you are actually ready to pull the trigger to leave

Stoicism is a virtue in these situations