Ask HN: Please stop writing tutorials/tech articles on Medium

Re:Ask HN: Please stop writing tutorials/tech articles on Me... by tacker2000 on Friday October 30, 2020 @10:11AM (#24942350)

I wholeheartedly agree. Medium is a cancer in the programming tutorial/article front.

Unfortunately, any such platform will be in due time be trying to seek income and will transform into such an ad-powered walled garden, whatever the good intentions in the beginning may have been.

What could be the solution to this?

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Re:Ask HN: Please stop writing tutorials/tech articles on Me... by geerlingguy on Friday October 30, 2020 @10:16AM (#24942408)

Going back to blogging and not expecting any income for your writing, mostly.

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Re:Ask HN: Please stop writing tutorials/tech articles on Me... by hmlongco on Friday October 30, 2020 @04:32PM (#24946600)

What's your solution?

Like it or not, websites cost money to run. The more popular they are, the more money it takes.

So... what? Spend your own money? Ads? Paywalls? Sell t-shirts? Try Patreon and hope enough people throw a dollar or two into your hat?

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Re:Ask HN: Please stop writing tutorials/tech articles on Me... by ffpip on Friday October 30, 2020 @10:18AM (#24942436)

They are giving free, unlimited place to host all your articles, and putting it behind a poorly implemented paywall (disable javascript for medium.com, incognito, clear cookies, proxy...Literally anything works)

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