I am a Developer Advocate for Security in Mobile Apps and APIs at approov.io.
Another passion is the Elixir programming language that was designed to be concurrent, distributed and fault tolerant.
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Developer Advocate for Mobile and API Security at approov.io
The pay wall they impose to me each time I try to read an article, just makes me hit the button to close that window, and its one of the reasons I use now DEV instead of Medium.
Hackernoon left Medium and some bloggers are doing it so... something must not be right with them.
In my case is not a question of if I can pay, its I just that think is to expensive.
Mhm, I address this sort of in the piece here saying that free content should exist and there is nothing wrong with that. Having a paywall goes two ways, pays the people who are creating value for the readers but also blocks people without the funds. Having both dev.to and Medium popular is a win for the internet :)
I am a Developer Advocate for Security in Mobile Apps and APIs at approov.io.
Another passion is the Elixir programming language that was designed to be concurrent, distributed and fault tolerant.
Location
Scotland
Education
Self teached Developer
Work
Developer Advocate for Mobile and API Security at approov.io
Having a paywall goes two ways, pays the people who are creating value for the readers but also blocks people without the funds.
Just to be clear I am not against Medium paying writers with the money that comes from the paid readers, by the contrary I like it. I just don't like the price asked to me.
Maybe by charging $5 for each reader they only get n paid readers, but if they charged $1 they may got n x 10 paid readers... just my 2 cents!!!
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The pay wall they impose to me each time I try to read an article, just makes me hit the button to close that window, and its one of the reasons I use now DEV instead of Medium.
Hackernoon left Medium and some bloggers are doing it so... something must not be right with them.
In my case is not a question of if I can pay, its I just that think is to expensive.
Mhm, I address this sort of in the piece here saying that free content should exist and there is nothing wrong with that. Having a paywall goes two ways, pays the people who are creating value for the readers but also blocks people without the funds. Having both dev.to and Medium popular is a win for the internet :)
Just to be clear I am not against Medium paying writers with the money that comes from the paid readers, by the contrary I like it. I just don't like the price asked to me.
Maybe by charging $5 for each reader they only get
npaid readers, but if they charged $1 they may gotn x 10paid readers... just my 2 cents!!!