No Medium – Build Your Own Site, Please

I don't have the best phone with the largest screen. When I open medium, I an ready maybe one-and-a-half sentence between all their messages, menubars and widgets. Also it is slow.

On my computer, the site just doesn't work.

Please do not use medium.

I dislike Medium, but not because it's slow (I've never even thought it was slow) but because of the vast amount of low quality content.

Unfortunately that site is full of people who think they can be tech bloggers and it's dragging the overall quality of the site down and hiding the actual good content.

I too have a dislike for Medium for pretty much the same reasons. Yet I still read articles on there. There are some things though that medium got right in the beginning in my opinion. A simple, minimalist reader friendly design and a restrictive but user friendly editing experience for instance. Then there is the ease of syndication, sharing and finding interest based content. Especially the latter is not going to be easily replicated by something like Hugo. I have high hopes for https://writefreely.org/ though!

Try Plume, a federated blogging application which implement ActivityPub standards in Rust. It's FOSS of course. https://joinplu.me

(Pros:) Have a huge audience, great for exposure. (Cons:) Posts content usually provides general information because they target the mass (not for specific groups). There are not many posts with high-quality (dig deep into a topic) content, and most of them are not really popular

now you have your own blog and full control, just remove the github/twitter/facebook and especally linkin logo :)

medium is just meh!