Re:Ask HN: Why Did Medium.com “Fail"?
by 1123581321 on Friday February 10, 2023 @07:08PM
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It sounds like you have a casual interest in longform articles. These subscription-driven publications are making their content more appealing to people who value longform enough to pay, which means the articles/emails are becoming really longform to appeal to those who like it the most.
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That’s probably an accurate assessment—both of the market forces and my interest in longform. I love long reads from traditional media (eg NYT) so perhaps I just haven’t found the right Substacks for me—discovery seems to be a tricky issue in this space.
It’s doubly tricky because a good long form article is a bear to write - but a short article bloated up to look like a long form isn’t that bad.
Even reading enough of the long form magazine and newspaper articles you start to notice certain patterns.
Re:Ask HN: Why Did Medium.com “Fail"?
by 1123581321 on Friday February 10, 2023 @09:00PM
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Same for me. I end up subscribing through a lot and then picking through feeds with keyboard shortcuts and keyword filters to speed it up. Could be better--and those methods aren't solutions for large subscriber bases.