On: Poll: Is there a negative stigma toward articles written in Medium?

[tkgally]

I agree. I get a positive impression from articles on self-produced websites with personal domains. They show that the author has put some thought, effort, and money into the presentation and preservation of their writing.

Creating such sites might be out of reach for a lot of nontechnical folks, but people in the dev and tech communities should be able to handle it.

[epolanski → tkgally]

> preservation of their writing

A third party site is more likely to preserve your work in time than you remembering to pay and host your content.

[tkgally → epolanski]

That may be true. But a third-party site might also go out of business, throw up a paywall unexpectedly, or decided for some reason that what you wrote is not appropriate for the site and take it down.