Medium Is Bad. Stop Using It

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Medium

I was getting so many paywalled medium articles in Google searches that I removed them with uBlock: google.<i>##.g:has(a[href</i>="http://medium.com"]) If they aren’t paywalled, they’ll hijack ctrl+c in code snippets and give you the option to tweet the snippet. Like what the actual fuck, I’ll find it elsewhere if I don’t figure it out on my own.

#Blogging #Blogging Platform #CMS 2188 social mentions

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Forestry.io

#CMS #Blogging #Social & Communications 35 social mentions

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Publii

Check out http://getpublii.com, it is quite similar to the app you're describing. (it's not Hugo-based, but similarly outputs a static site and is free and open-source).

#CMS #Blogging #Social & Communications 59 social mentions

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Write.as

WriteFreely [0] may be an alternative. It allows you to self-host, or choose a hosting package. It also has a companion with paid subscription that is built on top of it, Write.as [1]. The nice thing is that all server instances are federated, and are gradually more deeply integrated with other Fediverse apps. [0] https://write.as/writefreely [1] https://write.as.

#Blogging #CMS #Blogging Platform 54 social mentions

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HackMD

Https://hackmd.io/ is pretty nice for editing markdown, I haven't used the site in a long time. It looks like they are offering something commercial which is nice. Anyway hackmd+zero click integration to posting to a serving system, anything.

#Task Management #Productivity #Project Management 63 social mentions

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Coil

Yeah honestly if I wasn’t writing on Medium and was only a reader, I’m not sure I would pay for it either. I totally get the gripes from a casual reader stand point. There are some unique approaches to this idea of casual viewing. I know Coil (https://coil.com/) is doing this with the whole idea of Web 3.0. The idea, if I understand correctly, is you pay $5 a month for a membership, and any time you consume content from someone who has set up a coil wallet, part of your subscription goes to them. Like Medium subscriptions, but for the entire web. The problem right now is no isn’t really an incentive to use it. It’s all volunteer based. So the payouts from it are pennies. Websites would need to have Coil-only content that only members would get to see to incentivize adoption, similar to Patreon. But since it’s decentralized, it’s up to each site to implement it.

#Productivity #Crypto #Developer Tools 24 social mentions