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Medium has a very strong SEO long-tail (case in point, Towards Data Science, which is hosted on Medium, dominates the Google search results for anything related to data science despite the variable quality of the articles).

I haven't seen any recent articles on Medium go viral on Twitter/HN in a surprisingly long time.

I end up on Medium from searches or from posts to the HN home page. Either to medium.com or to some domain hosted there. In the latter case I realize it's Medium because of the 5+ seconds when the browser stops at a blank page, probably because it's loading some huge JS file instead of just the text content I'm there to read. To say that I don't appreciate that design is a big understatement.

I regularly read Medium stories linked from the front page of HN, but I don’t think they’re generally Medium original content, which I think is the point of this editorial change.

Nope. I don’t follow anyone. Mostly end up there reading links posted to HN.

They were what came before Substack.

The only one I read regularly is the Netflix Engineering blog.