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Re:Ev Williams to step down from Medium by indogooner on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @02:19PM (#32073805)
Blogger, Twitter and Medium. Thanks Ev. Still long for clutter free Medium interface.
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Re:Ev Williams to step down from Medium by throwaway1777 on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @02:44PM (#32074110)
That’s basically what substack is (trying to be)
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Re:Ev Williams to step down from Medium by rchaud on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @05:00PM (#32075621)
until it can't anymore because the now-generous VCs will start to want to see some stats they can sell up to other investors.

History repeats itself. Medium.com was clean and cruft-free too, until it wasn't.

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Re:Ev Williams to step down from Medium by capableweb on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @03:40PM (#32074698)
Medium also tried to be a clutter free version of Medi, eh I mean LiveJournal. At one point, Substack, unless radically different than Medium, will go the same way.
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