One of the most important aspects to consider before creating a tech blog is where to actually host it. Should you build a custom site on a brand-n...
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Good article!
Personally, with the changes to Medium I wouldn't pick it as an option. As such, my articles are on my site and are cross posted on Hashnode and Dev.to.
Thank you! This is the path I chose. I migrated all my technical articles from Medium to Hashnode and Dev.to. I used to be a Medium enthusiast, but the platform has become bad for technical writers. Dev.to, on the other hand, is just great!
I'm not familiar with Medium. Can you elaborate about these "changes" on Medium?
In essence, Medium started paywalling articles
That wasn't a thing back then?? I thought the Paywall has always been a feature in Medium. So it's not a big deal for me. But if it's something they've suddenly added, that changes everything. I would be upset too.
Nope, one day they up and decided to lock articles behind paywalls. And the exodus ensued
I respectfully disagree. The time to reach a critical audience while starting as nobody on a new domain is too discouraging. And you can publish in any language on platforms like DEV.
I would say : start on DEV no matter what. If you are at a company with tech blog platform, cross-post there and use canonical URL here to there. If you want to experiment your own platform, do the same, cross-post and use canonical URL here to there.
That is a viable approach too! Thanks for sharing it!
Yess, that's exactly what I'm planning to do as well. The cross-posting + canonical URL strategy is a sweet middle-ground to achieve the best of both worlds.
My 2 cents (and that's why I ended up writing my own blog platform Texted2).
External platforms are great and you get lots of features and a community for free (kinda free, sometimes), however, they limit you and moving away from it is not always simple.
What I am doing is writing to a good platform dev.to/thiagomg and writing in my own blog hosted using Texted2.
To reduce the overhead of maintaining 2 platforms, I use Markdown and just copy and paste to dev.to after I am done. All the posts are also hosted in GitLab. With that, if for whatever reason I decided to migrate somewhere else, I won't have scattered content, but all concentrated in my own platform.
Migrating content is always a problem. It took me a lot to migrate from Medium to WordPress and then to Dev.to. Although you can write a script that does most of the work for you, you still have to manually check each article (more than 100 in my case) and that takes time. Fortunately, I now have everything set up and ready to go.
P.S.
Thank you for mentioning Texted2. I was not familiar with that platform!
Great article.
I personally host my own website (that contains my blog) and also cross post here, Medium.com and hashnode.
Seems to be a common practice!
Yeah, cross-posting is a popular option. I automated the process with a script, which makes everything easier, otherwise it would take some time.