Hopefully you’re reading the replies here too then, because they don’t at all seem to gel with what you’re saying. The replies do reflect a lot of my own experiences though:
- Medium was a good platform for people to publish well formatted content online.
- said content ranked quite high on Google.
- There’s now a non-trivial amount of content published by myriad authors on there.
- I have zero interest in following a particular author. I don’t want recommendations. I end up there as a result of a very specific need at the time.
- you’re incessant pop ups to log in or sign up to read the content drastically reduced that value.
- I’ve now been conditioned to just avoid any search results that look like they go to a Medium page.
I obviously have no idea how widespread that experience is. The unfortunate reality is that the damage has been done. You could undo all of the things that led to it and I’d never know given the muscle memory that’s been created.
- Medium was a good platform for people to publish well formatted content online. - said content ranked quite high on Google. - There’s now a non-trivial amount of content published by myriad authors on there. - I have zero interest in following a particular author. I don’t want recommendations. I end up there as a result of a very specific need at the time. - you’re incessant pop ups to log in or sign up to read the content drastically reduced that value. - I’ve now been conditioned to just avoid any search results that look like they go to a Medium page.
I obviously have no idea how widespread that experience is. The unfortunate reality is that the damage has been done. You could undo all of the things that led to it and I’d never know given the muscle memory that’s been created.