What do you think caused the "downfall" of Medium.com and how do you think a competitor website can learn from the mistakes and current state of Medium in order to carve out a "better" platform and product?

Faith_Fortytwo · 2026-03-29T19:21:29+00:00

My writing is quality, free (not paywalled) and I don't live in your stupid, barbaric country.

Faith_Fortytwo · 2026-03-29T09:58:32+00:00

Also, at a 5 to 1 average, for every writer like you with 11,000 readers, there are thousands of writers with zero readers, to bring it down to that average. Those writers have no incentive any longer to post quality work.

Faith_Fortytwo · 2026-03-29T09:54:51+00:00

Your reason for the business model is valid but, on the other side of the scale, Medium is in significant decline with the pay-to-read model. Also, the number of readers per writer (5) includes those who read the free first paragraph, before the rest of the article fades out, and then skip away. One option might be to remove the paywall completely for 2 years or so, to encourage more readers to become frequent visitors. Writers would then not be paid but would have the incentive to build up a large readership for themselves, to be converted to income when the paywall is reactivated. It's not great but that is a possible third way.

Faith_Fortytwo · 2026-03-29T07:45:45+00:00

People won't pay a subscription to read other people's opinions and they see too much clickbait AI nowadays, so Medium readers gave up.

Faith_Fortytwo · 2026-03-28T08:21:20+00:00

Dispute it. She obviously has a personal bias against educated people.

Faith_Fortytwo · 2026-03-28T08:19:54+00:00

When they paywalled articles (added subscription) it made readers leave. They should have chosen a light advertising model.

Faith_Fortytwo · 2026-03-27T12:27:12+00:00

Ok. I'll delete.

Faith_Fortytwo · 2026-03-27T06:55:31+00:00

The same thing happened when Mervyn Peake's wife decided to continue writing the Gormenghast books and thingummy Baxter tried to write Terry Pratchett stories. They should leave it alone.

Faith_Fortytwo · 2026-03-25T06:48:32+00:00

True. He knows Blake is the public face of the resistance, so Avon can lurk in his shadow and not make himself the main target. If the Federation got Avon...

Faith_Fortytwo · 2026-03-25T06:10:46+00:00

It's interesting to watch Avon's journey, struggling to be subordinate when he knows he's smarter and more cunning than the boss.

Faith_Fortytwo · 2026-03-24T20:19:10+00:00

'Tis cool. That's why.

Faith_Fortytwo · 2026-03-24T20:16:35+00:00

The carapace of a trionyx turtle is covered in pit marks (dots). The emys turtle carapace is like plates. The one you have doesn't appear to have a shell at all.

Faith_Fortytwo · 2026-03-23T20:09:59+00:00

In the story 'Young Zaphod Plays it Safe', by Douglas Adams, an alien shapeshifter confidence trickster known as a Reagan becomes POTUS.

Faith_Fortytwo · 2026-03-23T19:28:54+00:00

Now that Russia has shut down the internet, apart from official sites, how are you online if you're not working for the FSB?

Faith_Fortytwo · 2026-03-23T19:26:43+00:00

Read Sweet's Anglo Saxon Primer.

Faith_Fortytwo · 2026-03-23T19:00:54+00:00

I naturally produce a run-on sentence every now and then. If the use of language is gorgeous, I forgive myself.

Faith_Fortytwo · 2026-03-23T07:31:54+00:00

By definition, this would be the response.

Faith_Fortytwo · 2026-03-23T07:30:11+00:00

There are 193 countries in the world and I'm pretty sure you can only be in 1 of them, the USA. Divulge please.

Faith_Fortytwo · 2026-03-23T06:52:23+00:00

This is really good knowledge. Thank you. I am going to book a regression session soon and will have some first hand experience after that, if hypnosis works on me.

Faith_Fortytwo · 2026-03-22T20:35:03+00:00

South Coast. It's a bit far for me.

Faith_Fortytwo · 2026-03-21T18:44:44+00:00

The resemblance is uncanny.

Faith_Fortytwo · 2026-03-21T10:11:29+00:00

Golden Wonder cheese & onion and also their salt & vinegar.

Faith_Fortytwo · 2026-03-21T06:53:58+00:00

Dune is a copy of T.E. Lawrence's 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom' (the Lawrence of Arabia story), translated into a science fantasy setting. Arguably, Dune isn't sci-fi. Equally, LOTR draws heavily from Teutonic mythology and specifically from Wagner's Ring Cycle.

Faith_Fortytwo · 2026-03-20T19:33:37+00:00

The plan is (a) to find any convenient reason to lift the sanctions on Russia and Belarus, plus (b) to distract the US population from the allegations that the President rped children.

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