You know what's creepy ? "You read a lot. We like that."
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Here's the thing, Medium never worked for me.
I had over ~300 followers and if I published something none of them would see it, no reaction, no visit, no read at all and I repeated the same thing over and over again with no luck.
I'd only get visits and reads on my articles when I shared the articles on social networks.
It seems your followers, real or fake don't matter are spammed with Medium algorithm to read "recommended" content.
I'm a developer, I like simple thing, but I don't like using static site generators to build a blog out of rst or md files and push to github etc.
I want a community around my blog, I wanna nice simple UI, a simple commenting solution, a place to upload my files and attach in posts optimized for web.
Plenty of blogging platforms may or may not provide all of it out of the box, but each with their own weird ToS and privacy policy.
All they would have to do, in order to have a functional and transparent recommender 'algorithm' is to rank order articles by how many of your followers liked, or read, an article... so if you have 100 followers and 50 of them happened to like another article 'B' then that article would be highly recommended to people reading your article. If they knew who was reading the article (logged in) then they could simply exclude articles from the list which the person had already viewed. That would help people browse through groups that shared similar interests.
Thing is they want to put more recommended content to your face as much as possible without knowing much about you, otherwise your scroll bar will hit the bottom quickly.
The recommendation engine from technical point of view is not a rocket science, they're just simply trying to tune for maximum engagement even if it costs them repeated nonsense content you don't like which tbh defeats the purpose of "recommendation".
It seems there's not much of community in Medium. All viral articles are the ones that the author had a good influence over their twitter of facebook etc audience.
If you already have 10s thousands on your twitter follower list that you worked hard to find and bunch of people know you for some of your other work, no matter Medium or a static generated blog, your article will go hand to hand and viral in many cases.
> I had over ~300 followers and if I published something none of them would see it
i hate this. it's the same with youtube. if i "follow" an author, or "subscribe" to a channel, it's because i want that creator's content; not content by other creators related to the same topic.
but they even can't handle singups correctly if you have 2 google accounts in one browser - show them correctly, you select one, it redirects, and it's still not authenticated...
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Here's the thing, Medium never worked for me. I had over ~300 followers and if I published something none of them would see it, no reaction, no visit, no read at all and I repeated the same thing over and over again with no luck.
I'd only get visits and reads on my articles when I shared the articles on social networks.
It seems your followers, real or fake don't matter are spammed with Medium algorithm to read "recommended" content.
I'm a developer, I like simple thing, but I don't like using static site generators to build a blog out of rst or md files and push to github etc.
I want a community around my blog, I wanna nice simple UI, a simple commenting solution, a place to upload my files and attach in posts optimized for web.
Plenty of blogging platforms may or may not provide all of it out of the box, but each with their own weird ToS and privacy policy.
I simply had enough of it and created my own blogging platform, https://www.gonevis.com where I have my own blog https://alireza.gonevis.com
I'm done with weird platforms where things are shiny and promising until they're not.