[andrewtbham]

Medium is run by ev williams. He founded blogger and twitter. He is interviewed in Founders at Work. I actually paid for extra blogger features in the early 2000s during the .com bust.

It's hard to express how disappointed I am in medium. I have written several very popular articles and I don't have a subscription and can't read hardly anything on there. Also I found it confusing to tell if your article is behind a paywall. They pulled a major bait and switch.

[ageitgey]

Yep, you really have to have been an author during the time the switched to the non-optional optional paywall to know how much of a bait-and-switch it has been.

I was so mad, I made a python script to copy my medium posts to a Ghost blog instance: https://github.com/ageitgey/medium_to_ghost