@jeremycherfas That's a requirement, yes.
@manton I take your point completely! If it's ok, I might drop you an email with a few thoughts. Obviously I'm well aware of (and appreciative of) what you've built!
@ianbetteridge I would love to read that when you do!
@mcg I agree. I actually deleted the original post on my site. He seems really unreliable and problematic.
@ryanbooker it’s just a pitch to gather feedback right now!
@mcg Exactly correct. Social media is so ingrained in so many peoples’ business models that they can’t not.
@leonp Heh, not aimed at you! I got a loooooot of feedback on that aspect of that post ;)
@SimonWoods I could not agree more strongly.
@cambridgeport90 But also, the real answer is: I don’t know!
@cambridgeport90 Example: Hatch, the internal blog at Medium, is arguably far better than Medium itself.
@cambridgeport90 This comes from a real world need I have: to create a reflective space inside an organization. There are lots of benefits to blogging internally in a safe space where you don’t need to worry about secrets or strategies being leaked.
@danielpunkass Plot twist: that was always true!
@JohnPhilpin @manton as a former media investor and current newsroom CTO, I can't say I disagree with that sentiment ...
@JohnPhilpin I feel like I have a professional need to check it out, so while I agree with you, I fed my personal information to the machine. Fingers crossed.
@KimberlyHirsh I’ve got good news. It turns out all of us is…
@odd True! This gets into Medium's journey a little bit - and why they focus so heavily on read time and the applause button over just pageviews. I have a lightly-held hypothesis that in the context of fiction this problem isn't as profound, but I could very well be wrong.
@timapple Oh wow! I've always thought the subway was pretty cool. Dirty, for sure, but it gets you where you need to go in a way that no other American city I've visited seems to have managed (with the possible exception of Boston).
@manton Also: it's not about features. It's about doing the one thing that deeply meets a need. People who think it needs to do more more more don't have a matching need - or, more likely, are just nitpicking for the sake of it.