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by deadvoid 1862 days ago
> Does there need to be?

Result from https://hn.algolia.com/?q=medium seems like a _yes_ to me. I also notice that lots of data science people for example is still oblivious that many despises Medium, so they continue to use Medium to build a community. That's a loss considering how hostile Medium has been to readers.
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sdevonoes 1862 days ago
I wonder what percentage of Medium users are HN user. Don't get me wrong, I don't like Medium but I think HN users are not target users for Medium.

I never heard any non-tech person complaining about Medium.

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deadvoid 1862 days ago
> Don't get me wrong, I don't like Medium but I think HN users are not target users for Medium.

When it comes to the purpose of understanding why Medium is popular or why it haven't been replaced yet, imho the question that matters is "who uses Medium and why?". So I think whether HN users is a demographic target or not is less important than the measurement of who amplified Medium's usage, or some variation of that. Like if large portion of reddit users are using Medium, then how significant would content traffic from HN would be, comparatively? Especially since there's so many negative sentiments towards Medium in articles/posts shared here over the years.

> I never heard any non-tech person complaining about Medium.

Yeah, that might be a part of the reason on the answer of why there's no Medium killer yet. I also wonder what their users demography is like, or specifically related to your reply, how popular is Medium among non-tech crowds compared to techies? I think it's safe to say some portion of cryptocurrency enthusiasts/amateurs are using Medium to build an audience. Where do they fall into, should they be considered non-tech or tech savvy?

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dagw 1862 days ago
I never heard any non-tech person complaining about Medium.

I've never heard any non-tech person show any awareness that Medium even exists as a brand.

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beckingz 1862 days ago
Medium looks good and somewhat credible, so in a job interview you can say respond to fizz buzz questions with "Well, I solved a similar problem in my medium dot com article". It's not really about actual readers, though those are nice.
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