{"id":22627,"date":"2018-09-04T15:05:32","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T19:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=22627"},"modified":"2018-09-05T14:45:46","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T18:45:46","slug":"medium-deprecates-custom-domains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/04\/medium-deprecates-custom-domains\/","title":{"rendered":"Medium Deprecates Custom Domains"},"content":{"rendered":"

Medium<\/a> (via Brent Simmons<\/a>):<\/p>\n

Medium is no longer offering new custom domains as a feature. Instead, you can create a publication on Medium that will live on a medium.com\/publication-name URL.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously: Backchannel Is Moving to Wired<\/a>, Renewing Medium’s Focus<\/a>, Anywhere But Medium<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Update (2018-09-05): David Heinemeier Hansson<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I would not recommend anyone to use Medium for a new publication without custom domain support. Medium has proven themselves an excessively volatile partner to publications already. Their whims will change again. You need an escape hatch.<\/p>

Also: “If you already have a custom domain on Medium, nothing will change for you for the foreseeable future, and your domain will continue to work as expected”. What a shitty way to sow doubt amongst existing publications. Signal vs Noise is OUT the second this changes.<\/p>

And the strong implied suggestion that this will change, Medium’s “foreseeable future” seems to be about a fortnight, should we prod all publishers to have their contingency plans ready to go. What a shame.<\/p>

Three years ago we explained why moving Signal v Noise to Medium<\/a> made sense to us. I’m very happy with the time we’ve spent on the platform so far, but the choice wouldn’t look so simple today.<\/p>

After further review, we’re going to be leaving Medium at some point in the near-to-mid-term future. Thanks for all the fish, @ev! You built a beautiful typewriter, the early community was awesome, and I respect trying something different. Shame about the VC pressures. Adieu!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

I don’t understand why any publication, even a personal blog, would use Medium without a custom domain name. It’s not just about branding now, but about long-term sustainability. If you have your own domain name, you can keep old URLs working in perpetuity.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Medium (via Brent Simmons): Medium is no longer offering new custom domains as a feature. Instead, you can create a publication on Medium that will live on a medium.com\/publication-name URL. Previously: Backchannel Is Moving to Wired, Renewing Medium’s Focus, Anywhere But Medium. Update (2018-09-05): David Heinemeier Hansson: I would not recommend anyone to use Medium […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-09-04T19:05:34Z","apple_news_api_id":"4801d5d7-e318-4af3-9c7f-830c15e7cf6e","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-09-05T18:45:50Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ASAHV1-MYSvOcf4MMFefPbg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1453,96],"class_list":["post-22627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-medium","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22627"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22639,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22627\/revisions\/22639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}