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It’s a YC company. I don’t see much special for it, let’s see how long it lasts. At least Medium did some very unique things with their text editor (I challenge anyone to find a more enjoyable _writing_ experience than Medium in the world of online editors, barring Google Docs)

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What? Medium is horrible to write. We basically migrated from it because it’s like word. Who likes to write using word besides non-techies?

And even then, I’d chose wordpress over medium any day because of how restrictive and gated medium is. Their rss feeds are also so hidden it’s annoying.

You may not agree, but from a technical / UX perspective it is impressive - the rest of their UI platform sucks but I think their editor is top notch

https://medium.engineering/why-contenteditable-is-terrible-1...

have you tried Quip (https://quip.com)

How is this related to blogging / text editing?

> I challenge anyone to find a more enjoyable _writing_ experience than Medium in the world of online editors, barring Google Docs

I was responding to to the bit about online editors, and Quip has a very nice collaborative editor that has a lot of useful functionality (which eventually makes its way into Google Docs)

Interesting - thanks, I’ll check it out sometime

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