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Switch from Medium to your own blog automatically in minutes (github.com)
21 points by ecthiender 2573 days ago
4 comments
O_H_E 2573 days ago
Interesting to see this again. This has been on the front page 3 days ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20060549

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HNLurker2 2573 days ago
Because it is so good it should be posted again
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twblalock 2573 days ago
It's easy to make a blog. It's very difficult to match the SEO results and network effect of Medium.

If you want people to see what you write, and you aren't already famous, Medium will put your content in front of more people than a self-run blog.

That is Medium's real competitive edge. It is hard to get your blog noticed. If you want to beat Medium, you need to beat them at that.

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Doubl 2573 days ago
Are there many people who go to medium directly? I've only ever gone there because someone's linked to a post here or on Reddit. Which is something you could do for your own blog's post.
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ecthiender 2573 days ago
But seems like that recently has changed. Now the paywall-ed articles are shown more to people[1]. So even authors with large number of followers don't get their articles shown to their followers.

> It is hard to get your blog noticed.

I think if you write good content, and post it on good programming communities like HN or Reddit, I don't think its that hard to get it noticed.

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[1]: https://www.freecodecamp.org/forum/t/we-just-moved-off-of-me...

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Edit: formatting

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Abishek_Muthian 2573 days ago
Show HN discussion on this from 2 days back : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20060549
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htmk 2573 days ago
Is adding new posts easy?
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woutr_be 2573 days ago
As with most static site generators, it's generally just a markdown file with some frontmatter metadata, but that's it.
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gfosco 2573 days ago
Looks like the answer is yes: https://github.com/mathieudutour/medium-to-own-blog/blob/mas...
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