[fragmede]

to reiterate what you said, since others are trying to be helpful and giving other workarounds:

this is besides the point. for such a simple task as publishing static text, we've got what, yet another $7.99 (or whatever), a month fee? yes, medium provides some benefit to both authors and readers, and some may find it worth it, others won't.

But it's static text. www.pacbell.net/~username, or Geocities may not have been so glamorous; capitalism has an odor all its own.

(inb4 I get ad-homonym'd for having personally benefitted from capitalism)

[tonystubblebine]

It's $5. All of that money goes to the authors right now (VC is funding the operations). Plus in the case of this article, some additional money went to an editor and copy editor.