Medium four months in my experience so far

I hadn’t planned to publish this post until the end of May, as I wanted to write a few more posts before I decided whether to continue publishing content on Medium.

I’m currently reading Unscripted by MJ Demarco. In one of the chapters, he states that the most successful and wealthiest tech companies and the entrepreneurs who founded them concentrated on one idea. And he’s right: Microsoft is Operating Systems and only the latter Office applications. Google is search and advertising, Amazon is shopping, Apple has its own computer ecosystem, and last but not least, Meta is Social Media.

That one sentence has made me rethink my objectives for using Medium.

CTNET has also experienced a sudden growth spurt in visitors, and that website and brand have to be my priority and need to be my one thing as long as they continue to grow. I have faith that CTNET will become successful and continue to deliver its mission of making technology more accessible and easier to use.

This will be my last post on Medium for a while, but I will soon look to repurpose some of my CTNET content for Medium.

Six paragraphs in, and I haven’t even started sharing my own experiences of using Medium so far, as it hasn’t influenced the conclusion I have reached.

Medium experiences as a reader

Overall, Medium is a good experience for readers. There is a lot of well-written content available, and the ability to leave claps and comments is nicely done.

My only real gripe is with the list system and the fact that you cannot change the order. I like adding articles to my reading list, and I currently have some 400 articles to read. I would like to read them in the order that they were added to my list. I can’t, and this frustrates me. Maybe even enough to stop me from using Medium or adding the article to Readwise Reader for later reading. But then I wouldn’t comment or clap the posts impacting the other writer.

My experience of writing with Medium

I currently write my drafts on Google Docs and only move them to Medium or the WordPress editor for my CTNET blog when I’m happy and ready to publish.

I like to add links and images within the Medium or WordPress writing tools. Medium isn’t too bad, though it seems more limited than the WordPress editor. However, it seems to offer most of the functions a writer will likely use.

The publishing screen took me a while to understand, and while some of the complexity is understandable, I think it could be improved and the options better explained. But now that I’m thinking about it, it’s not really any worse than publishing content to my WordPress site.

Conclusion

As I mentioned briefly, this will likely be my last post for a while. As I previously stated in a comment for another post, Medium is like YouTube for writers. It allows you to share your content with readers via another channel. Therefore, I plan to look at repurposing some of my existing blogs for republishing on Medium.

I will continue to read and learn from the great authors on this platform and add my comments.

I also want to thank everyone who has read, clapped, and commented on my posts. I really appreciate it.