medium.com: reddit for the coastal elite

i have like 500mb :'-(

I'm generally at work or home and both have wifi so it's kinda nbd mainly

no medium blogs for me on transit tho

it's not the cost, it's the fact that it takes 20 seconds to load on a phone

that too

would you guys be into a blogging platform that was pretty much just plain text long form articles?

that's what medium is for most articles! only it loads all the possible images and page design tweaks no matter which article you go to

so you guys want a medium...lite?

medium is a great software imo, page load thing aside

their attention to detail w things like typography is v cool https://medium.engineering/typography-is-impossible-5872b0c7f891

it prob wldnt even be very hard make the pages smaller they were prob just ignoring it cause it wld slow down their ~innovation~ tho not sure what having all those employees is for if not doing work like that

"there are people that don't have unlimited mobile data plans??"

yes, in fact I think these were scarce for the past few years; but now I hear they're showing up again. I have AT&T though and don't have it; they capped me years ago. They did raise it slightly last year and I never go over but I also don't stream music much off wifi.

Yeah, I have the lowest mobile data plan available on my carrier. Hard to see why you'd need unlimited with wi-fi everywhere, unless you're in a remote place, in which case there's probably no cell service either.

lol

Wow, I gotta say Medium's new pivot is very interesting. Definitely a big market, though. pic.twitter.com/P8ANpSof3u

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oop wrong thread

have we talked about substack?

https://doyles.substack.com/p/in-queers-we-trust-all-others-pay

knew this would be a problem when the substack new yorker article said 'moderation decisions are made by the founders, and, McKenzie told me, the company does not comment on them. Best has suggested that Substack contains a built-in moderation mechanism in the form of the Unsubscribe button.'

theyre providing a valuable service putting obnoxious writers behind a paywall

https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dp7y3/medium-tells-journalists-to-feel-free-to-quit-after-busting-union-drive
https://ev.medium.com/medium-editorial-team-update-8679bcb9fe81

these people with infinite wealth could actually do something good for journalism, instead they do things like this, over and over

the people with actual infinite wealth who have arguably succeeded in journalism are the ones who have 1) bought a traditional newspaper 2) given it a ton of money (washington post, la times (although that might not work out)).

these people with infinite wealth could actually do something good for journalism, instead they do things like this, over and over

stewart bainum jr. is out there trying to buy the tribune co. out from under a vulturous hedge fund so that's at least one +1 for people with infinite wealth as far as I'm concerned

yeah buying newspapers is prob the way to go, the real move imo would be rather than going for one of the real big names instead just buy a ton of other papers and fund them to do good reporting etc

I read that the medium guy could afford to run medium at its current rate of losses for 200 years

Ok ev has extreme growth hacker brain

imagine punting on 700k subscribers because it doesn't represent google-worthy scalehttps://t.co/zAK1ebSP86 pic.twitter.com/VEtg5gmrs9

— Jacob Silverman (@SilvermanJacob) March 25, 2021

lol jesus

What a ding dong

700,000 people?!?!

Are you suggesting that is a lot or not a lot

i don't know whether it's enough to run an editorial operation (seems like it should be tbqfh) but it's more: who subscribes to medium dot com?!

venturing a guess that 20% were subbing for "cuckold love stor[ies].”