One of the most salient features of our Tech Hiring culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted.
Medium is a bad platform for developers, is bad since the beginning and is worse each year
Still there are lots of people there, why not cross-posting
If you cross-post, do it in a publication with lots of subscribers, else it's uselss
If you cross-post, do it in a way where you avoid the damn paywall
Avoiding the damn paywall is difficult
At the end of 2019, I published four articles, I let you guess which one I didn't publish in a publication
Recently I published two articles under the same publications, didn't get that many views. Medium seem on a big decline for developer content, that' good so.
As a reader, I absolutely hate the paywall. I had this article in my reading list, How to write a Gradle plugin in Kotlin. A 15 minutes article about a very technical open-source thing, and now it's not available, the content is lost for most people. I'm pretty sure that's not what the author intended.
TL:DR Medium seems dying, I hope it will continue so, if you cross-post on it, be sure to be allied with a good publication, nobody can fight Medium on its own.
I stopped cross posting some time now. I don't like medium from user perspective. I have some posts there and the second I read someone else's articles, I get - pay, pay, pay.
It's complicated.
At the end of 2019, I published four articles, I let you guess which one I didn't publish in a publication
Recently I published two articles under the same publications, didn't get that many views. Medium seem on a big decline for developer content, that' good so.
As a reader, I absolutely hate the paywall. I had this article in my reading list, How to write a Gradle plugin in Kotlin. A 15 minutes article about a very technical open-source thing, and now it's not available, the content is lost for most people. I'm pretty sure that's not what the author intended.
TL:DR Medium seems dying, I hope it will continue so, if you cross-post on it, be sure to be allied with a good publication, nobody can fight Medium on its own.
I stopped cross posting some time now. I don't like medium from user perspective. I have some posts there and the second I read someone else's articles, I get - pay, pay, pay.
Thanks for the insight in the stats 🙏❤