medium-to-own-blog
Dev tools
static site generator
SHOW HN2019
494points
130comments
#33of 2,195 in 2019
Top 2%of 2019 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
14 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 11 critical, out of 39 comments about the project. Thread score +0.14.
Idea: 6 for, 5 againstDesign: 2 for, 3 againstDocs: 2 for, 0 againstExecution: 1 for, 1 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful tool for people leaving Medium
From 3 comments
Audience or not, if I had started writing on Medium when it first came out then I'd be pretty pissed off with the way the site looks and behaves now with its sticky headers,…
kasbah on HNA ton of people want to get off platforms (including medium) that they see going the wrong direction, and making it easier is great.
bananatron on HNI hope that everyone uses this. If I was Netlify, I'd pay Mathieu to develop this further (e.g. web UI for people not handy with CLI). What broke Medium for me was their paywall,…
andr on HN
The GIF demo in the readme is clear
From 2 comments
I don't have a blog (medium or anything) so unfortunately I don't have a use for this, but I LOVED the gif. It wasn't an attempt to show "how easy it is to do with one command"…
duiker101 on HNGreat gif. This should be how everyone does readmes.
fareesh on HN
Objections
Medium still offers audience reach that a self-hosted blog lacks
From 2 comments
I honestly don't get posts like these. IMHO the main selling point of Medium is not that you can easily set up a blog, there's plenty of platforms that let you do that easily, or…
eugenhotaj on HNIt's kind of a trap, but Medium definitely provides the audience. The articles I've written there have gotten way more reads and interactions in the last 2 years than anything…
ravenstine on HN
Moving to Netlify or GitHub is another lock-in
From 1 comment
Why? Sadly, there's not much motivation described in the README. You state "Let's move your Medium content to your very own website" and then you push it to Github and Netlify,…
grx on HN
Terminal-based CLI is hard for non-technical writers
From 1 comment
The fact that the first thing you see here is a CLI video already puts off most of the people who write in Medium and could hypothetically consider moving away. Since I got…
outime on HN
Requests
Support for Medium publications with multiple authors
From 1 comment
Well done. Would love to see a similar process that works for a Medium Publication (which has multiple authors, etc.).
sgarrity on HN
Handle comments during migration
From 1 comment
What happens with all the comments? Are they migrated as well? It should at least be mentioned somewhere. Obviously, it is harder to set up dynamic content (like comments) for…
darekkay on HN
Web UI for non-technical users
From 2 comments
I hope that everyone uses this. If I was Netlify, I'd pay Mathieu to develop this further (e.g. web UI for people not handy with CLI). What broke Medium for me was their paywall,…
andr on HNThe fact that the first thing you see here is a CLI video already puts off most of the people who write in Medium and could hypothetically consider moving away. Since I got…
outime on HN
Questions
Will SEO be affected by duplicate content
From 3 comments
I've heard that Google deranks content it believes to have been duplicated, and I don't know if that's really true but I've been paranoid about copying my existing Medium content…
ravenstine on HNIt is true yes, that's why the generated blog have a canonical link to medium so that the SEO isn't impacted. So you won't get any SEO for the articles that have been created on…
mathieudutour on HNI don't believe your blog would get any improved SEO benefit from having canonical links to Medium - IIRC, Medium would get the juice. Furthermore, I don't know how Google…
ryanisnan on HN
Can publication content be exported
From 1 comment
Interesting, do you know if it's possible to export the content of a Medium publication?
mathieudutour on HN
Alternatives named
WriteFreely
From 1 comment
Why does it have to be a trade-off? Something like WriteFreely gives you both your own blog and (via the Fediverse) an audience. Don't want to run your own? Then pay for a…
cjslep on HN
Ghost
From 1 comment
Honestly I really appreciate tools like this exist but I'll probably keep using Medium out of laziness. I don't want to have to worry about maintaining my own blog and I'm cheap…
fiveoak on HN
Stackbit
From 1 comment
So I have been putting together a way for people to more easily make their own blogging platform. It would kind of mimic a social media platform, but since everything is…
Vordimous on HN