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Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
@ev just published details about the update here. As I tweeted a few minutes ago, Medium is starting to look more like a Twitter + Tumblr hybrid. As a longtime fan (here's my profile), I like the direction.
I'd love to know more about the learnings and design process behind this update, @ev, @dustin, @thebird, and others on the team.
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Tess Rinearson
@_tessr · Engineer, Chain.com
@rrhoover Sooo I didn't work directly on this but a few people invited me to share my thoughts so here goes--
We've struggled with Medium being too intimidating for people for a while; with all that blank space in the editor and so many meaty, well-written stories out there it can be intimidating for new writers! So we'd been exploring ways to support more casual content for a little while and this was a success internally.
I personally just wrote my own first short-post today, which was a little short story that I almost certainly wouldn't have published otherwise. Just seemed too brief for a "normal" Medium post! But people seem to really like the post and I'm very happy the casual editor helped me publish it. So personally I'm excited to see how this will empower other people, too!
Edit: How do you turn things into links....?
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Erik Torenberg
@eriktorenberg · Former Product Hunt
@rrhoover @tessr @_tessr thank you for jumping in tess :)
cc'ing @biz in case he has any thoughts
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Tyler Hayes
@thetylerhayes · Bebo
@rrhoover @tessr @_tessr Use HTML not Markdown.
(Don't ask me why.)
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Tess Rinearson
@_tessr · Engineer, Chain.com
@thetylerhayes ahh thank you!
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