[mrweasel]

While not a fan, I understand Medium, and the people posting on Medium (well some of them). Fair enough that you want to allow people to make money on their writing, but I'm unsure if Medium has the right solution. They've ended up as a source of annoyance, and that's not a good place to be as a platform. On the other hand I have no better suggestions.

The Medium writers I don't get are the corporate/startup blogs. You a company, you're blog isn't part of your revenue stream, hopefully, so why not just have an S3 bucket with a static blog, or a Wordpress installation. It is just convenience?

[Sanzig]

I think you nailed it.

Somebody trying to earn some money from their writing - yeah, I get why they choose Medium. It sucks, but there's not really a tremendous amount of better options.

But the majority of Medium articles aren't that. They're promotional personal blogs (so why not just put those on your personal site?) or more often they're technical blogs written as marketing material for a company. That can easily be hosted on a company's own site with little effort.