How many people on here cross post on medium and their own blog?

Are there a lot of people on here who also post the same articles to medium and on their own website/blog?

Comments

[Eric McCormick]

I'm about to wire up some of my self-hosted posts to cross-post here and was glad to find this discussion.

My intention is to cross-post here from my self-hosted blog, as my writing is increasingly more web generic and less specific to a proprietary app dev stack that I wrote about more when I started blogging. Reaching more of an audience is my goal.

[Eric Bishard]

Never, I only publish my developer related stuff on Dev.to right now. It seems to get noticed by the people I want it to. When I have published on Medium I felt it harder to reach my target audience. With that said I have not really gave medium a good try and have only published on the Angular Blog. Actually I don't cross post at all. If anything I write an article on my own site: blogs.telerik and post a similar yet different article here that links to the articles on my (my companies) blog.

[Aaroh Mankad]

I'm publishing on my Medium and x-posting to Dev.to

Once I make my website a little more robust (it's just HTML right now), I'll be moving my blog posts there.

[Paul]

It's funny. Way back when, I wanted my WP blog to look like Medium. I couldn't find one close enough, so I wrote my own. Now, I'm on v2 of my theme's rewrite, which of course looks nothing like Medium.

[Paul]

I used to cross-pollinate from my blog to Medium, but they've changed so much that I no longer even bother.

[Paul]

I post primarily to my own blog and then republish here if it's development-related.

[Equan P.]

I'm thinking to cross post with Medium but personally i think dev.to is targeting programmer alike so if the article that i want to publish is too technical for Medium i will definitely use dev.to

[Ben Halpern]

To add some color from our end to this discussion:

• It's great to x-post from Medium if you're used to publishing there and don't want to add too much burden to your workflow
• It's great to x-post from your own site to establish a canonical source for your own work. For some this is definitely important and we want to support this.
• dev.to has some native functionality that you'd only get here, largely expressed as "liquid tags" in the markdown. But we'll always be compatible with most RSS feeds.
• As we keep growing, "best practices" in this regard might change, but we really care about backward compatibility, so expect us to be driven to not sweep the rug from under you.
• For those not aware, go here for x-posting automagically dev.to/settings/publishing-from-rss

[Eric McCormick]

Thanks for the tip on the rss driven auto x-posting. That could be useful.

[Meghan (she/her)]

I don't but that's because I didn't really have a blog before starting on here and just link my profile on my site to here, but it seems a lot of the more established writers do as dev.to makes it pretty easy to integrate with other services.

[Bobby Priambodo]

I do sometimes cross-post from Medium. Usually the flow is: post to Medium and publish it via Twitter, Facebook, and forums, post the link to Reddit the next day, and cross-post here on dev.to for extended reach (ThePracticalDev's Twitter account is a great distribution channel too which you get for free!).

Both Medium and dev.to releases me from the burden of (re)designing my blog, so I can focus on writing instead. I am currently in a dilemma of not wanting dev.to to provide customization options, but there are some tiny parts of the design elements that are not to my liking... but I think I can get over it. Still thinking of permanently making the move to dev.to as the main channel but currently still not, uh, courageous, enough :D