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Re:Ask HN: Why Did Medium.com “Fail"? by trieste92 on Friday February 10, 2023 @01:55PM (#34744022)
- UI has progressively gotten more bloated

- too many articles that read like they were written by an LLM

- the service provided is easily replaceable

At least substack has a niche with conservatives. Medium, not so much

Re:Ask HN: Why Did Medium.com “Fail"? by chx on Friday February 10, 2023 @01:59PM (#34744075)
That's a strange characterization because none of my substacks are anywhere near being conservative.
Re:Ask HN: Why Did Medium.com “Fail"? by comte7092 on Friday February 10, 2023 @02:14PM (#34744291)
It seems to have become a meme because a handful of notable conservatives made a big stink about moving from traditional media to sub stack, and liberal Twitter followed on by attempting to paint substack as the gab of publishing or something.

I agree with you, it’s far from a conservative platform. It’s more so a challenge to traditional media, which I think is threatening to the prominent news types on Twitter.

Re:Ask HN: Why Did Medium.com “Fail"? by trieste92 on Friday February 10, 2023 @03:29PM (#34745364)
Substack having a notable conservative presense doesn't imply that all or even most are conservative
Re:Ask HN: Why Did Medium.com “Fail"? by slymerson on Friday February 10, 2023 @02:04PM (#34744135)
good points
Re:Ask HN: Why Did Medium.com “Fail"? by Lazare on Friday February 10, 2023 @05:20PM (#34746781)
Funny, I subscribe to three Substacks, and they're all left wing, in one case being written by an avowed Marxist.

Tell me more about this niche?

Re:Ask HN: Why Did Medium.com “Fail"? by trieste92 on Saturday February 11, 2023 @07:14PM (#34757928)
Sample size is 3, sampling isn't random :)