Tags: Medium

Medium and custom domains

Published on 2021-02-16 in 💬 Micro

After Medium had already announced last year that custom domains were to return, this is now finally the case. However, a membership is a prerequisite.

A good change in my opinion, even if I will no longer use this feature or Medium as a whole.

We hope custom domains help make your space on Medium feel like your own.

Remember: Even if it feels like it, it’s not your own!

However, it is now finally possible for me to separate the domain android.jlelse.eu from AndroidPub. I have set up BunnyCDN to redirect requests to the medium.com domain.

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Medium is bringing back custom domains

Published on 2020-09-03 in 🔗 Links

Medium is bringing back support for custom domains. And in general they seem to listen better. In addition to custom domains, Medium is reducing the amount of annoying pop-ups and banners and will also offer more customization options.

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Retiring AndroidPub

Published on 2020-05-16 in ✍️ Posts

Many may not know it, but I am the founder of AndroidPub, a Medium publication about Android development. (The site is still running on a subdomain of my first domain, although I registered it’s own domain a long time ago.)

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How to read paywalled Medium articles without a membership

Published on 2020-02-25 in 💭 Thoughts

Updated on 2020-02-25

I sometimes publish links to Medium articles. Often the articles are behind the Medium paywall. This gets the author a few bucks per month, paid by “Medium members”. I’m still a Medium member until March (I paid for one whole year), but I won’t extend my membership after that, mainly because I don’t get enough value out of the subscription (many articles are clickbait or do not interest me). But in itself I think it’s good that authors are paid directly by readers’ money and not by tracking readers.

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A Medium Dilemma

Published on 2019-12-05 in 🔗 Links

Reply to: "A Medium Dilemma" by Ben Werdmüller

I wrote something similar about Medium back in July to what Ben Werdmüller writes now. Medium isn’t doing something bad, it’s just that they changed directions over the last years. From being a platform, where anyone can write anything and anyone can read anything for free, it’s now something like a paid magazine anyone can contribute too (and earn some money from it).

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Medium things

Published on 2019-07-02 in 💭 Thoughts

Updated on 2019-07-02

I didn’t wrote something for the last days, because I was busy with two things. First: Because there are currently semester breaks I’m at work again and there I already spent the whole days coding and looking at screens. Second: I was busy reworking the Medium archive on my German blog.

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4 Reasons Why I Stopped Living on Medium - Building My Own Blog

Published on 2017-12-19 in ✍️ Posts

Updated on 2019-10-16

Actually, I was a Medium hardcore fan. Medium was something like my home. For my writings. And it was the place where I found some reading material.

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