Re:Ask HN: Why Did Medium.com “Fail"?
by subpixel on Friday February 10, 2023 @07:45PM
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That’s going too far. The NYTimes is playing a different game in a different league and a comparison is not apt.
I have read really interesting material on Medium and it’s just not enough to make me want to pay to read _any_ content on Medium. I might pay to remove ads like I do on YouTube but only after developing a habit that is triggered by content I care enough about and visit often enough for the ads experience to detract from it.
In my experience Medium should have been (could still be?) a Wordpress killer and not a publishing play.
I have read really interesting material on Medium and it’s just not enough to make me want to pay to read _any_ content on Medium. I might pay to remove ads like I do on YouTube but only after developing a habit that is triggered by content I care enough about and visit often enough for the ads experience to detract from it.
In my experience Medium should have been (could still be?) a Wordpress killer and not a publishing play.