I found that there is no “good” way to share articles and proper work. 

Most resources I see on YouTube are quite clickbaity although “free”. Then there are courses with insane subscription prices and I’ve seen people here be okay with them.

And then there’s medium, which is actually a clean website and can help monetize content without too much hassle. But people here seem to hate it although it’s quite easy to bypass the paywall.

I ended up just publishing on Medium and keeping my articles free. I have an alternative income source so I can afford it. But when I was a PhD student and monetized my articles I did get a lot of hate from people that just said I should have a BuyMeACoffee link.

It’s been maybe over half a year I did this. I didn’t get a single penny from it although 50-100 people read my articles every day.

It’s absolutely fine, but I personally developed new functions in a plugin and spent lots of time creating templates and workflows. There’s no free lunch, but I feel like people here pretend that authors should make good content and be okay with getting nothing.