Are there a lot of people on here who also post the same articles to medium and on their own website/blog?
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Are there a lot of people on here who also post the same articles to medium and on their own website/blog?
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π, although i always forgot to mention, already publish on medium.
me too. I do like the discussion and smaller community on here though. I feel like I know some people by first name.
I am not using Medium but I am publishing my blog at two places my own site and dev.to. I have my calendar is in place to schedule my post. I will first add a post on my blog and share this on my twitter and LinkedIn. After 1 day, I will share it on Reddit. I will get most of my traffic from Reddit. After 2 or 3 days I will re-publish it on dev.to. I will add all these things to my calendar at a time of publishing a new post
You can refer this post to know more : How To Plan A Blog Schedule That Will Crush Your Goals
I publish on my own site, here, and some articles on Medium and CodeMentor.
My own site is most important since it helps build my brand. It took a long time to gain any sort of traffic though. The canonical_url feature of dev.to made it easy to cross-post here.
I don't post everything to Medium since it has poor source code support. I only import articles with little to no code.
I also cross-post a bit from Quora to here, but only for extended answers, or ones involving extended thought.
I used to cross-post to CodeProject, but their import tool broke at some point.
I just publish my articles on my Medium blog. They all get automagically published on Dev.to as well, through the RSS feed you can enable in your account settings. It's an awesome feature. I've been using it since it was in Beta. Have been loving it ever since. It cuts the cross-post time down immensely.
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
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.
To add some color from our end to this discussion:
Thanks for the tip on the rss driven auto x-posting. That could be useful.
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
I post primarily to my own blog and then republish here if it's development-related.
I used to cross-pollinate from my blog to Medium, but they've changed so much that I no longer even bother.