[minimaxir]

I had the same Error establishing a database connection incident. So I moved to Github Pages.

There are many, many places for long-form content that won't crash under load. Posterous's replacement, Tumblr, Wordpress.com, etc. "Not crashing" is a bizarre and bad reason to choose exclusively Medium.

[stephenhacking]

Medium has a prettier editor? I could get featured on the first page of medium if my content doesn't suck?

[minimaxir]

Game Theory. If everyone joins Medium to "get on the front page," then the probability of getting on the front page becomes that much lower.

Also, getting on the front page of Medium is mostly irrelevant since you have mostly nil personal branding anyways. If you're going to hit #1 on Hacker News, do it on a website you own with your own content.

[mapleoin]

then the odds of getting on the front page become that much higher.

you mean lower

[stephenhacking]

Yes sir. My bad.