[mdwrigh2]

Medium sends out an e-mail with hand selected stories every week though and I find myself reading a couple quite often though. That's much less likely to happen with your own blog.

[ThomPete]

The real question you need to ask yourself though is, how likely are you to get your story in the email?

[yen223]

As long as

    P(story read by audience|written in Medium) > P(story read by audience|written in self-hosted blog)

Medium will continue to be a better choice.