What is Medium?
Medium is a different kind of place on the internet. A place where the measure of success isn’t views, but viewpoints. Where the quality of the idea matters, not the author’s qualifications. A place where conversation pushes ideas forward.
Medium is a tool in the Hosted Blogging Platforms category of a tech stack.
Who uses Medium?
Companies
210 companies reportedly use Medium in their tech stacks, including Twitch, Lyft, and Figma.
Developers
547 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Medium.
Medium Integrations
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Decisions about Medium
Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Medium in their tech stack.
Nicholas Martin
DeployBot seems to be the defacto choice for deploying Shopify Themes, but having lots of previous experience with CircleCI, it was trivial to configure deployments to a "staging" theme, and the "live" theme. Plus, CircleCI has a generous free tier. I intend on going into more detail over on Medium
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Medium's Features
- Embedding videos, tweets, vines, etc
- Word counter
- Drafts
- Notes
- Version history
- Embed Medium anywhere
- Publications
- Custom domains
- Discussion
- Topics
Medium Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Medium?
WordPress
The core software is built by hundreds of community volunteers, and when you’re ready for more there are thousands of plugins and themes available to transform your site into almost anything you can imagine. Over 60 million people have chosen WordPress to power the place on the web they call “home” — we’d love you to join the family.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
Python
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
