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by threesixandnine
3271 days ago
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I am glad I never used medium and I go out of my way not to read anything on it. How are they different from many other blog systems before them? The correspondence between op and the guy from medium just put me off even more. Like someone else before me already said...pretty ridiculous saying to someone 'your product is nothing new'...coming from medium To me it just looks like another case of all words for openness but in reality my hand washes your hand. |
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There is one key difference: Medium's popular posts recommendation algorithm is not based on pageviews, but on the time that people spend reading them. It was an attempt to solve the issue of clickbait. From Business Insider:
With Medium, Williams was on a mission to clean up the mess that blogging had become, the misinformation and drivel it attracted. He hoped to cure professional journalism of these ills, too.
“The state of tech blogs is atrocious. It’s utter crap,” he told Bloomberg’s Brad Stone in 2013. “They create a culture that is superficial and fetishizing and rewarding the wrong things and reinforcing values that are self-destructive and unsustainable.” And he said he was “pessimistic about the state of media, and that’s why I want to work on this problem.”
His idea back then was an algorithm that recommended high-quality stories not based on clicks, but on how much time people spent reading them.
[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/inside-the-meltdown-of-evan-...