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Re:Ask HN: Please stop writing tutorials/tech articles on Me... by gremlinsinc on Friday October 30, 2020 @11:54AM (#24943521)
So you're saying, you'd rather pay me $19 for my tutorial, than pay $5 for all tutorials on medium's platform?
Re:Ask HN: Please stop writing tutorials/tech articles on Me... by SilasX on Friday October 30, 2020 @12:17PM (#24943795)
For the tutorial quality and UX scumminess typical of Medium, no, I don't want the $5(/month?) option. I'd prefer any of these options:

1) Free, non-scummy tutorial sample, with the rest offered for money, or

2) Free full tutorial with non-scummy ads/UX, or

3) Free full tutorial with the understanding that this is self-promotion and I should raise my evaluation of the author and seek to hire their other work.

Which of those do you feel is unjustifiably entitled?

Re:Ask HN: Please stop writing tutorials/tech articles on Me... by hmlongco on Friday October 30, 2020 @06:41PM (#24947546)
Probably the fact that while you listed your preferences you and most everyone else wouldn't bother to pay. Primarily since it would mean making a credit card transaction to an unknown site.

Your options are clearly biased towards the fact that you don't want really to pay anything, either in terms of money or ads/attention.

Re:Ask HN: Please stop writing tutorials/tech articles on Me... by SilasX on Friday October 30, 2020 @07:37PM (#24947875)
No, I've paid for courses before, far more than I care to admit. And I've listed an ad-based option that makes money (2), I'm just allowing for the possibility of people who want to get paid in self-promotion (3), although that's perhaps redundant, being a species of advertising.
Re:Ask HN: Please stop writing tutorials/tech articles on Me... by _jal on Friday October 30, 2020 @04:24PM (#24946535)
Dunno about the GP, but for me, yes.

I'm not going to subscribe to Medium or other things like it. I don't like subscriptions and avoid them for the most part, and Medium is effectively a weird bundle of mostly crap I mostly don't care about.

When something is worth it, a la carte works for me. It should cost more than as part of a bundle. (Although I'd need to need your tutorial rather badly to pay the price of a book for it.)

Re:Ask HN: Please stop writing tutorials/tech articles on Me... by benhurmarcel on Saturday October 31, 2020 @09:14AM (#24951176)
Why do you think your tutorial is worth a lot less on Medium than your own website? Shouldn't the price be similar?