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28 votes
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Mechanism keeps track of the time cells take to split, sounding the alarm on cells that may turn cancerous
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Tiny undervalued hardware companions
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Trains on the Moon
8 votes -
The future of Duck Game
29 votes -
Maps: see how the Interborough Express could unlock new opportunities for New York City
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Having self-control leads to power: a new study with 3,500 people finds that showing self-control influences how powerful an individual is perceived to be by their peers
20 votes -
Notes on conciseness
30 votes -
How to fake your way through Hegel
8 votes -
Notes on the Ivory Coast
6 votes -
Realigning railway curves in (otherwise) fast zones to speed up trains
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Wordpress hosting
My girlfriend has started a small business and is looking into a blogging platform. What she has tried so far hasn't been great. She has decided to go the WordPress route and this is where I am...
My girlfriend has started a small business and is looking into a blogging platform. What she has tried so far hasn't been great. She has decided to go the WordPress route and this is where I am involved.
Any suggestions for hosting providers? What features should I be considering or anything else I should be aware of when it comes to picking a provider?
Right now I am looking at Bluehost vs Hostinger. Bluehost just seem to be the most advertised. Hostinger seemed to offer more for the same cost.12 votes -
Modernizing railways for high speeds: the engineering challenges in setting speed zones
10 votes -
So you’ve been no-platformed? (2016)
20 votes -
Wordpress.com now supports ActivityPub
21 votes -
Freedom, responsibility and privilege – the trichotomy of speech (2016)
6 votes -
The chemistry of ‘Yes Minister’ (2017)
4 votes -
How fast is necessary for trains?
10 votes -
The hidden system of legal kickbacks shaping the US prescription drug market
10 votes -
National Ignition Facility fusion societal energy hype
19 votes -
Researchers engineer bacteria that can detect tumor DNA (in mice)
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The United States can't build infrastructure. The reason: it refuses to learn from other countries
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How to ensure you won’t have public transportation
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"I booted Linux 292,612 times"
11 votes -
The issue of curiosity
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Haunted by a photograph
4 votes -
Adventures with old worprocessors
7 votes -
Wordpress to Pelican in twenty-four hours
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What’s the strangest thing you ever found in a book?
12 votes -
Where/how should I acquire a .com domain for three years in advance?
So I wanna purchase a domain for my personal website (just a WordPress thing), and I wanna pay for three years in advance (I have my reasons). Which domain sellers are reasonably priced,...
So I wanna purchase a domain for my personal website (just a WordPress thing), and I wanna pay for three years in advance (I have my reasons). Which domain sellers are reasonably priced, trustworthy, and more likely to assist a less technical, non-developer user like myself?
Thanks!
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Solving the operator ‘shortage’ by not running transit like a business
8 votes -
The Eighteenth Elephant
6 votes -
Powering the lunar base
3 votes -
Shooting Captured Insurgents (1898) A silent film review
5 votes -
Living in the End Times: We know apocalypse is coming but act as if we don't. How do we change that?
5 votes -
Julian Assange extradition judgement
9 votes -
Division by zero in type theory: a FAQ
4 votes -
Easy JavaScript unit tests in WordPress with Jest
3 votes -
Libravatar - A free and open source alternative to Gravatar
8 votes -
There are no known commodity resources in space that could be sold on Earth
13 votes -
Book review: Turn the Ship Around
4 votes -
Misconceptions in space journalism: domes are overrated for human colonization of the moon and Mars
11 votes -
Starlink is a very big deal
10 votes -
The extraordinary story of Joy Whitehead - female soldier of the first world war
8 votes -
What randomization can and cannot do: The 2019 Nobel Prize
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Automattic (owner of Wordpress) raises $300 million at $3 billion valuation from Salesforce Ventures
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We need an alternative to Medium, and it’s not Wordpress
Introduction I hate medium and I think it should die a slow death. I tried to get some information on the subject to substantiate my belief. What Medium Does Bad Medium is slow On Gmetrix,...
Introduction
I hate medium and I think it should die a slow death. I tried to get some information on the subject to substantiate my belief.
What Medium Does Bad
Medium is slow
On Gmetrix, medium.com has a
F PageSpeed Score
, with a 11.8MB Total Page Size and a Fully Loaded Time of 12.4s . A random article got a little better, with aD
scorePingdom gives Medium a
B
score, with a page size of Page size 12.4 MB and Load time 2.15s (much better). This is from San Francisco, USA.Probably because I’m closer, the results for São Paulo, Brazil, are marginally better. The
B
score remains, but Load time dropped to 1.68s.Tildes gotta a
C
on GTmetrix and anA
on Pingdom. On Google, Tildes got a98
and medium.com got a48
.What is probably more concerning is that builtwith.com’s lists 106 different technologies at use on a single Medium page, ranging from AngularJS to Subversion, Wordpress Grid (aren’t they competitors?), Microsoft Azure and AliExpress. Tildes list only 13 technologies.
Medium is annoying
I’m sick and tired of opening a random Medium article and being bombarded with an immediate call to action for me to subscribe or to sign into a useless mailing-list. No: I do not pardon the interruption.
It’s 2019: I don't wanna sign-in just to read a free fucking article.
Medium weakens your brand
On Medium, you’re not a content maker. Your a Medium contributor. There’s a great difference. There are little customization options, but you’re encouraged to strengthen the Medium brand instead of your own.
Medium does not support Markdown
In 2019, this is utterly ridiculous. I should be able to write my posts in Emacs, Vim, VS Code, whatever. Markdown is a universal format that simply works and not supporting it natively is unacceptable.
The Default Editor Sucks
It forces you to write in a certain (clunky) way and it doesn't work at all.
Too Much White Space
Medium uses space poorly.
Not FOSS
Wanna host your own? No can do amigo.
Your content is not (really) yours
Wanna export your Medium posts? Should be easy, like a single button, right? NOPE. And it can stop working at any time.
Most Content is Shit
I don’t wanna generalize, there are some good things on Medium. But most Medium articles are bellow 300-words, full of unnecessary subtitles with nothing more than obvious statements I could easily get from Google. Most Medium articles are from developers trying to leverage their status by showing knowledge of trivial technologies.
What Medium Does Right
A Social Network With Content Instead of Content With Social Networking
This is something no amount of Wordpress widgets will ever top. Medium is a social network. It gets views, it gets you “applauses”, it gets you validation. It’s the Instagram of text content. Medium makes you feel good about yourself, and give you the shot (illusion?) of exposure. Maybe you can be in a publication, which is just an assortment of posts within Medium itself! See, you’re growing! You’re reaching a larger audience! They might even read your stuff!
The Alternative
It is obvious that Medium does a lot of things right. It is an actual social network that engages people like no other current blogging tool. People that know better use Medium to their advantage. People use Medium to talk trash about Medium. So we need another Medium. One that is just as social, but that is faster, less annoying, less of walled-garden and respects your content. I’m not in a position to do such a thing yet. But I certainly wish it existed.
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O Maidens in Your Savage Season and “Not Like Other Girls” Syndrome
5 votes -
Security alert: pipdig [popular WordPress theme provider] insecure, DDoSing competitors
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Chang’e 4 Lunar Orbit: A postmortem
5 votes