Are there many people who go to medium directly? I've only ever gone there because someone's linked to a post here or on Reddit. Which is something you could do for your own blog's post.
But seems like that recently has changed. Now the paywall-ed articles are shown more to people[1]. So even authors with large number of followers don't get their articles shown to their followers.
> It is hard to get your blog noticed.
I think if you write good content, and post it on good programming communities like HN or Reddit, I don't think its that hard to get it noticed.
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[ 58.8 ms ] story [ 632 ms ] threadIf you want people to see what you write, and you aren't already famous, Medium will put your content in front of more people than a self-run blog.
That is Medium's real competitive edge. It is hard to get your blog noticed. If you want to beat Medium, you need to beat them at that.
> It is hard to get your blog noticed.
I think if you write good content, and post it on good programming communities like HN or Reddit, I don't think its that hard to get it noticed.
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[1]: https://www.freecodecamp.org/forum/t/we-just-moved-off-of-me...
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Edit: formatting
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20060549