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Discussion on: Should you use Medium or dev.to?

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Brenton House

The big thing missing from dev.to is custom domain names. I'm sure there are a lot of developers (and others) that would quickly move their blog off of Medium if dev.to supported adding custom domain names to their product.

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Chakrit Wichian

Second this. It is always possible, of course, to run a blog software by ourselves on our own domain but that is not the same thing as publishing on a platform or a network.

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Mike Lockhart

or, just run your own static blog (served from GHPages or wherever) with a custom domain, and cross-post to DEV with a Canonical URL back to your blog post. Better than custom-domain.dev.to or custom-domain.medium.com

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Brenton House

I like your idea but I was was thinking about top level domains (i.e., I have brenton.house as my medium blog). I can still can (and may yet) do what you suggested though until they add support for custom domains.