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Medium is a blog-publishing platform. It was founded by Twitter co-founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone in August 2012. The platform has evolved into a hybrid of non-professional contributions and professional, paid contributions, an example of social journalism.
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Pro Paragraph based commenting
As Medium encourages long-form writing they've re-imagined how comments should work accordingly. You can leave comments for every paragraph separately, so you don't have to reference a specific part in a comments section at the bottom. Technically, the feature is called "notes."
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Medium
Recommended 6 years ago
Pro
Beautiful design following the latest design principlesPro
Simple and easy way of writing new postsPro
Great post editorPro
Excellent readabilityPro
Unintrusive yet powerful community interactionPro
Built-in analyticsPro
Great sarch engine optimizationPro
Clean, beautiful pagesPro
Zero setup requiredPro
Paragraph based commentingPro
Collaborative if you want it to bePro
BookmarkingPro
Recommendation systemCon
No custom domainsCon
Medium can use your content however they want toCon
ProprietaryCon
Not self-hostableCon
Medium can use your content however they wantCon
Export is limitedCon
Non-intuitive, non-threaded comment systemComments
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Con Medium can use your content however they want
Your content can be used royalty-free by Medium according to their Terms of Service.
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Pro Easy access dashboard
To access it, click the "M" and it will display right there, without redirecting to a separate page.