Begin rant.

I don’t want to be that guy saying this, but 99% of the top results on google from Medium related to anything technical is literally the reworded/reframed version of the official quick start guide.

There are some very rare gems, but it is hard to find those among the above mentioned ocean of reworded quick starts disguised as “how to X”, “fixing Y”. Almost reminds me of the SEO junks when you search “how to restart iPhone” and find answers that dance around letting it die from battery drain and then charge, install this software, take it to the apple repair shop, go to settings and traverse many steps while not saying that if you are between these models use the power+volume up button trick.

End of rant.

Somebody who just summarizes tutorials can write like 10 medium posts, in the time it takes an actual practitioner to do something legitimately interesting.

Well said. Most great articles I found on Medium are actually very old hence do not rank well.

QA platforms and blogging platforms both seem to have finite lifespans. QA forums (Stack Overflow, Quora, Yahoo answers) do seem to last longer, need to be moderated pretty aggressively unless they are going to turn into homework help platforms.

Blogging platforms are the worst though. Medium looked pretty OK when it first came out. But now it is just a platform for self-promotion. Substack is like 75% of the way through that transition IMO.

People who do interesting things spend most of their time doing the thing. So, non-practicing bloggers and other influencers will naturally overwhelm the people who actually have anything interesting to report.