Andy Rosenberg
@andythegiant · Head of Marketing, Roostr
I recently committed to "part-time" blogging and chose Medium specifically because it offered me a good community and built-in audience to send my more long-winded thoughts.
I'm conflicted about this update.
The audience still exists, but I wonder how the new format will affect what I/everyone posts. I'd hate to see some of the 3 minute plus posts give way to short blurbs for increased engagement. This definitely goes beyond a product update - this is a whole new Medium we are dealing with. It will alter the way we communicate on the platform entirely.
Jury is out for me until I get to use it further.
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Ken Romano
@kenromano · Director of Broadcast Products, Associ…
@andythegiant Andy, I agree. I see two barriers to people writing on the web: (1) the technology (2) the content. To me, the value for Medium was lowering the barrier of technology. They provided an idiot-proof template to quickly post content in a visually-appealing and clean way. But it didn't do anything to make creating content any easier. And I liked that. It kind of set the quality threshold hold and gave the indication that only high-quality content should be posted.
Everyone on the internet has an opinion. So many sites (yes, Twitter included of course) make it unbelievably easy to just post anything --- perhaps a fleeting thought or an unsubstantiated opinion --- and for me, Medium was the place to get away from that noise and find the buried treasure.*
I hope it stays that way.
*Yes, there is irony that I'm typing up a quick stream of consciousness opinion right now...
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Amrita Chandra
@amritachandra · Startup Marketer
@andythegiant I totally agree. I liked that Medium has mostly long-form content, even though there was nothing stopping someone from writing something shorter. I am not a fan of this move.
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