[simion314]

>Yes but the romantic era of blogging is over. Content creators have to get paid.

IMO most bloggers are not living by writing blogs, the blogs post are used usually for promotion or other reasons and not to make a few cents.

Newspapers are a different thing.

[gtirloni]

Sure, but we're talking about bloggers than want to profit. Otherwise, they wouldn't have paywalls, right?

In that case, if their content is just self-promotion and doesn't have a lot of value, fewer people will pay.

EDIT: Really puzzled by the downvotes, care to elaborate?

[simion314]

I did not downvote, I was under the wrong impression that all medium posts are under paywall but I checked now ( https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/360018834314-Stori... ) and it seems the blogger must opt-in into it, so maybe the downvoters also had same impression as me.

Still weird that some person wants to promote some conference and fine volunteers and puts it under a paywall.

[verdverm]

Medium still requires login after so many visits to the site, regardless if the content is behind the paywall