Tag: Medium

  • Why #Medium is not for me right now

    Why #Medium is not for me right now

    I love the wide group of writers on Medium.

    I love the writing experience.

    I love the reading experience.

    I hate the inflexibility of publishing. – No scheduling, no on-publish triggers to share on social media!

    I hate the curation limitations  – collections that take months for someone to read something and decide to add it to their collection.

    I hate the SEO-unfriendliness – what’s with the crazy urls that only machines can read. Friendlier names are easy enough to do, why are they missing on a ‘premium’ platform?

    I hate that it is closed and unextendable – maybe this is in the pipeline and maybe simplicity is the goal, but still I want to do things with the platform that it doesn’t currently do and I feel frustrated that I have to wait on who-knows-who to build it.

    For those reasons, I’m out.