• k_o_t
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    What change about medium do you dislike? (i don’t know what it was like in the beginning)

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      modals and headers and footers having nothing to do with what you came there to see. I can’t speak to the fairness/advisability of the paywall because I’ve heard varying things about it being good/bad for writers, but…

      I like that my writefreely blog is served out briskly without too much cruft. I’ve started investigating the templates it used and it seems there’s some sensible opportunities for some customization beyond what the CSS field gives you as well.

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      Probably the fact that it’s a centralized service while blogs were inherently decentralized.

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        medium used to be decentralized?

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          I didn’t say Medium was decentralized, I said blogs were decentralized. Medium is centralizing a decentralized thing, which is terrible.

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            Yes, but in my parent comment I asked specifically about the differences between Medium of the past and Medium that it is today, and you made a comment about blogs being decentralized, so from your comment I inferred that in the beginning Medium was also decentralized and that’s why it was acceptable, and in turn why \u\kixiQu said they liked the “past” state of Medium better.

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          I assume they mean that blogging isn’t something that it makes sense to decentralise.