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Medium doesn't "hurt your credibility" nearly as much as revealing that one's arsenal of litmus tests is suffering from such a paucity of real knowledge that one bases it on the web design, but Medium has a lot of annoying popups. A lot of people like Substack better and they have a paid subscriber thing that works well.

(realistically speaking, experts tend to know less about the blog hosting ecosystem the more they know about their domain)