Why would you post here on HN that you'd rather write on medium when you hardly participate here to begin with?<p>If it were a post with some actual content I can see why you'd want to post it here for discussion but it is a meta post about the medium you write on, not an actual post. Not exactly hacker news. Personally I think medium is the new geocities, it'll implode one day and leave another big hole in the web unless archive.org or archiveteam get there first.<p>Beware of who you give control of your content.
Eh, use a static site generator in tandem with something like s3+cloudfront and you can have a lightning fast and practically infinitely scalable personal site for pennies a month.<p>My site's not particularly complex, but it comes out ahead speed wise on pingdom when compared to medium.<p><a href="http://i.imgur.com/O2xVK7t.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/O2xVK7t.jpg</a>
I had the same <i>Error establishing a database connection</i> incident. So I moved to Github Pages.<p>There are <i>many, many</i> places for long-form content that won't crash under load. Posterous's replacement, Tumblr, Wordpress.com, etc. "Not crashing" is a bizarre and <i>bad</i> reason to choose <i>exclusively</i> Medium.
I understand the point being made ( <i>running a personal server can be frustrating / time-consuming /annoying</i> ) but the principle of the Web is peer to peer hyperlinking.<p>Consolidating onto 'easy' vended services may work short-term, but will accelerate the transformation of the Web into 'channels' owned by media conglomerates. Opera Unite was a valiant effort to fight the transformation for 'normal folk' to use but sadly withered.<p>No-one much visits my blog so I don't have a problem with load, but several co-geeks have moved theirs into AWS to handle peaks. I still feel that's sort-of cheating but at least they retain control and technical nous.
Quora anyone? As a writer, I feel its neat, accessible and of course reliable. People are more likely to follow your profile on Quora than signup with their emails on your personal blog. And don't forget the easy-to-earn upvotes and shares. Down side: No analytics :(<p>As a reader, Quora gives me more insight about the author through answers on diverse topics.<p>Disclaimer: Quora fan here! Answer may be biased.