[Apocryphon]

WordPress, Blogspot, even Xanga and LiveJournal predate Medium and didn't have to resort to subscription services.

[egypturnash]

Pretty sure all of them had subscriptions. Hell, I was a paid user of LJ until they got sold to the Russians and everyone left.

[Apocryphon]

I think they had subscriptions but they were certainly far less in your face than Medium's paid content ads. I think tiered services are fine if they don't spam you about them.

[VWWHFSfQ]

better than ads

[asdff]

I'll take ads, I block them anyway.

[Apocryphon]

I don't think Blogspot/Blogger had ads.