Fred Rivett
@fredrivett · One half of @wecontrast
This is cool, I spotted it in the wild last week and added my first newsletter signup (with my first ever Medium referred signup!) earlier this week.
Question: Have you been in contact with anyone at Medium? Is this something they approve of, or is it a slight hack on how they do things and there's potential they may shut it down?
It's quite a big change for Medium to allow writers to gain value outside of its platform.
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Joshua Anderton
@joshuaanderton · Founder of Upscri.be
@fredrivett thanks so much for trying Upscribe! Im so glad you like it.
Very good question. Medium had to approve Upscribe so they are totally in the know and have been super supportive. They even mentioned Upscribe on three of their staff blogs in multiple languages. Really great team over there!
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Fred Rivett
@fredrivett · One half of @wecontrast
@joshuaanderton Wow, super interesting that they are happy with having an external setup to collect emails from Medium posts and not integrate anything themselves. Not that either route is right or wrong, just different paths and interesting to see they're going with letting outside developer(s) create a key feature here.
Can I ask what the approval process looked like? I didn't even know there was such a thing.
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Joshua Anderton
@joshuaanderton · Founder of Upscri.be
@fredrivett I know what you mean. I'm very excited that they're happy about it.
Totally! There is a submission process to go through with Embed.ly (recently acquired by Medium) where each app is manually reviewed and then accepted or denied. Once accepted Medium uses the OEmbed framework to fetch custom content for the link you paste in your story (same concept as embedding a YouTube video).
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Fred Rivett
@fredrivett · One half of @wecontrast
@joshuaanderton Nice, appreciate the insights here Joshua. All the best with Upscribe, you've got a user here :)
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Joshua Anderton
@joshuaanderton · Founder of Upscri.be
@fredrivett really appreciate that Fred, so happy to have you on board! Thanks for chatting! Will talk again soon I'm sure :)
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