When comparing GoNevis vs Medium, the Slant community recommends Medium for most people. In the question“What are the best blogging platforms?” Medium is ranked 6th while GoNevis is ranked 10th. The most important reason people chose Medium is:
Medium has clean, minimalist pages with pictures and great typography.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Free
Absolutely free for a lifetime. No cost at all.
Pro Advanced open-source dashboard
GoNevis Dash is an open source project/product that you can participate directly to improve, either by submitting code, reporting bugs, reviewing patches, etc...
Pro Themes
Different templates and themes.
Pro Built-in commenting
You don't need to use external commenting widgets on your site, all the comments and discussions happening on the website are stored under your account and can be easily managed and moderated.
Pro Free subdomain
Get a free subdomain registered under gonevis.com.
Pro Follow/Subscription support
People can subscribe and receive notifications on new posts.
Pro Full SSL Support
Using secure connection on all the website's traffic.
Pro Granular permissions engine
You can bring your whole team to each website and give them permissions such as Author, Admin, Owner, etc. and manage your entire website with your team.
Pro Content tagging
To keep content management simple, #tags are available instead of categories.
Pro File manager
With file manager Dolphin, keep all your photos, music, videos, documents, and other files under control.
Pro Built-in search
Pro Custom Google Analytics code
Using user's own Google Analytics code.
Pro Custom domain
Users can connect their own domain to their website. For example, jungle.gonevis.com => jungle.com or even blog.jungle.com. There's no limit on how many custom domains users can set on their website.
Pro Static pages
Websites and blogs can have static pages alongside their index page. Such as About, Contact or even dedicated pages and links to display a page with selected tags or categories.
Pro Disabling Google Analytics code
Users can disable Google Analytics from their website. In that, GoNevis will not put any analytics code on their website.
Pro Built-in SEO
When someone shares content from your website, related information such as images, title, description and other data that will be recognized by social media.
Pro Author Global Profile
Each user on GoNevis.com have a global profile, this will help each publisher to get more coverage.
Pro Author profile
Each writer will have a profile on their blog or website. This will make it easy for visitors to read all the content published by the author.
Pro Embeds
Can embed many different website widgets such as:
- YouYube
- SoundCloud
- Vimeo
- GitHub gists
- Pastebin
- ....
Pro Guest Subscriber
Can follow a blog without having to create an account on GoNevis.
https://blog.gonevis.com/guest-commenting-and-subscribing-without-gonevis-account/
Pro Guest Commenting
Ability to Comment on blogs without having to create any account.
It's possible to subscribe to further notification of comment section to be notified when there's a reply form the author or other commenters.
https://blog.gonevis.com/guest-commenting-and-subscribing-without-gonevis-account/
Pro Circles & Group Publishing
Circles allow you to share the content exclusively only for a group of selected people.
Sometimes you may want to make a post or an article only available to a group of people, like your Friends or Family members or even your coworkers.
Pro Monetization
Can user Google AdSense for monetization.
Just add your Google AdSense code, no custom tag is required.
Pro Email & Live Chat Support
Direct Live Chat and Email Support regardless of the being Free or Paid user.
Pro White Label
You can remove GoNevis footer link.
Pro Clean, beautiful pages
Medium has clean, minimalist pages with pictures and great typography.
Pro Excellent readability
There are no distractions and with a clean layout and great typography, reading Medium articles is a pleasure.
Pro Zero setup required
As soon as you sign-up for the service, you are ready to start writing.
Pro Clean writing experience
Medium takes away all the clutter without taking away any necessary features for a better writing experience. And it doesn't require knowing Markdown to write, all tools are WYSIWYG.
Pro Great inbound channels to acquire bigger audiences quickly
Has a great network based on tags and search for "Suggest an article" as a similar read to others and for specific categories. Allows you a much bigger audience quicker than most platforms.
Pro Unintrusive yet powerful community interaction
Allows for finding new, related content.
Pro Great post editor
A WYSIWYG editor that does not get in the way at all. It is invisible most of the time and only appears when you select something.
Pro Bookmarking
Medium allows bookmarking articles and following collections as well as users.
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."
Pro Recommendation system
Intended for appreciating a post, allows easier discoverability of an article by other readers.
Pro Photo upload and display is aesthetically pleasing
If you post photos as part of your blog, the interface on Medium is one of the best for both inline uploading as well as display in the post itself.
Pro Built-in analytics
Medium shows how many people have opened your post and how many have read through it. And how many people have recommended your post.
Pro Collaborative if you want it to be
You can send a draft out to other people and have them edit and leave notes on it.
Pro Google Analytics support
They can enable this for you upon request.
Pro Excellent Post editor
With so many built-in features and flexibility to use, I would recommend Medium first amongst all.
Cons
Con Medium can use your content however they want
Your content can be used royalty-free by Medium according to their Terms of Service.
Con Not self-hostable
Con Cannot customise domain address
From April 2018, Medium has removed the ability to set a customised domain on new accounts.
Con Proprietary
Con Limited customization options
In order to create a dead simple way to use the service, possibility to customize your blog was sacrificed. Medium publications, however, do allow a limited amount of customization.
Con Non-intuitive, non-threaded comment system
Con Freemium philosophy
Con Export is limited
The only export option is HTML. If you want to migrate away from Medium for some reason, it might be very difficult to do so.