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What bothers me about Medium is that they originally wanted funding to be able to create long-form, well-researched journalism.That is what they asked for on kickstarter, years back.

They got their support, reached their goal, delivered a few stories and then switched to being a blog-software company!?

That is not what I backed and paid for.

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Are you sure it's Medium you're talking about, and not Matter[1]? I couldn't find anything about Medium on kickstarter.

[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/readmatter/matter

Hm, according to wikipedia: "In April 2013, Johnson and Giles announced that Matter had been acquired by Medium, a new publishing platform established by Twitter founder Ev Williams"

From the updates and emails back then I got the impression that medium was built FOR matter, and then becoming it's main product.

Apparently matter still exists too! :)

Kickstarter is like voting. Once you cast the vote, all bets are off on what actually happens. And they already have your money so odds are not good for you.

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