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dustin senos
@dustin · Former Head of Design at Medium
@ow, thanks for being levelheaded and not just here to complain. The world needs more editors with your openness.
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Evan Solomon
@evansolomon · Engineer @ LinkedIn
The internet has conflated being a writer (or any kind of creator) and being a distributor. There are good reasons that has happened, but historically it's actually quite an anomaly. Part of our core thesis at Medium is that the status quo isn't quite the right balance.
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Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
We've all been waiting for this. I've been fortunate enough to play w/ an early version. I love the stumbleupon-like navigation.
Owen Williams
@ow · Digital Director at VanMoof
I might be the odd one out here, but I just don't "get" Medium. Not only is the design very bland and unexciting (oh, look, everyone gets the same layout!), there's no custom domains or branding and all content that users write belongs to the Medium platform once it's published (i.e you no longer own the rights).
It doesn't make any sense - what happened t… See more
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Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
@anildash has a fantastic essay on Medium titled, "What Medium Is." http://dashes.com/anil/2013/08/w...
As quoted in the piece @ev admits (via tweet, naturally), "I like confusing people." https://twitter.com/ev/statuses/...
Medium has so many similarities to Twitter in that people didn't get it in the beginning. I could go on and on of why I love Medium … See more
Evan Solomon
@evansolomon · Engineer @ LinkedIn
Owen, nothing happened to self publishing, we just think it's not the right tool for everyone and that there's a lot of value we can add by (1) making everyone's content look good and simple and (2) building a network rather than forcing writers to also be their own distributors.
We agree we need more variety in the way content looks. We're working on it n… See more