{"id":23956,"date":"2019-01-15T17:14:01","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T22:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=23956"},"modified":"2019-01-15T17:14:01","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T22:14:01","slug":"signal-v-noise-exits-medium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/15\/signal-v-noise-exits-medium\/","title":{"rendered":"Signal v Noise Exits Medium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/m.signalvnoise.com\/signal-v-noise-exits-medium\/\">David Heinemeier Hansson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/m.signalvnoise.com\/signal-v-noise-exits-medium\/\">\n<p>Three years ago <a href=\"https:\/\/m.signalvnoise.com\/signal-v--noise-moves-to-medium\/\">we embraced<\/a> an exciting new publishing platform called Medium. It felt like a new start for a writing community, and we benefitted immensely from the boost in reach and readership those early days brought. But alas it was not to last.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>These days Medium is focused on <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/membership\">their membership offering<\/a>, though. Trying to aggregate writing from many sources and sell a broad subscription on top of that. And it&rsquo;s a neat model, and it&rsquo;s wonderful to see Medium try something different. But it&rsquo;s not for us, and it&rsquo;s not for Signal v Noise.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Traditional blogs might have swung out of favor, as we all discovered the benefits of social media and aggregating platforms, but we think they&rsquo;re about to swing back in style, as we all discover the real costs and problems brought by such centralization.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dhh\/status\/1085291413347065856\">David Heinemeier Hansson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dhh\/status\/1085291413347065856\">\n<p>Nice bonus from leaving @medium is to finally be able to kick those fucking Facebook like buttons off our posts<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/09\/moving-to-medium-preserving-permalinks\/\">Moving to Medium, Preserving Permalinks<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Heinemeier Hansson: Three years ago we embraced an exciting new publishing platform called Medium. It felt like a new start for a writing community, and we benefitted immensely from the boost in reach and readership those early days brought. But alas it was not to last. [&#8230;] These days Medium is focused on their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-01-15T22:14:02Z","apple_news_api_id":"4e492a36-6512-4cf1-8bf0-04fcc5e24017","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-01-15T22:14:03Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ATkkqNmUSTPGL8AT8xeJAFw","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":[25,1453,96,740],"class_list":["post-23956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-facebook","tag-medium","tag-web","tag-wordpress"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23956","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=23956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23957,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23956\/revisions\/23957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}