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A fact from Medium (website) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 18 October 2013 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that TechCrunch's Drew Olanoff thought Medium, the service created by Twitter's founders, got its name from being a "medium" size platform in between that and Blogger?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2013/October.

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This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because a Google News search revealed significant coverage in multiple, independent, reliable sources. Indeed, there was enough coverage in TechCrunch, The Guardian and The Wall Street Journal (amongst others) to nominate it for a "Did you know" on the front page. --Ritchie333 ^(talk) ^(cont) 16:47, 13 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Move to Medium (blog host)?

I mean, I think that's the service, per the infobox. Wikipedia says some are confused about exactly what it is expected to provide, and it has a citation, so maybe that's the way it is.

Whether the way it is is the way it should be is less clear, though.

Anybody care to publish their online opinion? InedibleHulk (talk) 00:17, 10 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

How about just Medium (website)?–Totie (talk) 07:26, 12 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I'd go for Medium (website) - "website" is a simple and common word used for this kind of disambiguation. WP:NCDAB says that the disambiguating word should be "the generic class (avoiding proper nouns, as much as possible) that includes the topic" or "the subject or context to which the topic applies" and "If there are several possible choices for parenthetical disambiguation, use the same disambiguating phrase already commonly used for other topics within the same class and context, if any. Otherwise, choose whichever is simpler." Dreamyshade (talk) 07:13, 4 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Done: I've moved the page to Medium (website) as per WP:NCDAB. —zziccardi (talk) 19:39, 6 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Plus Medium is not simply hosting blogs, so yeah, "(website)" would suffice. Gerald WL 13:03, 1 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Tor Censorship

In the censorship section, it's worth mentioning that Medium does not allow Tor users to read the site. Tor users see an unsolvable captcha due to Medium's CloudFlare configuration. See also : faq blog, trac — Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.254.145.74 (talk) 09:16, 20 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I wanted to read some critical reviews of the website called medium, after trying to access an article and it demanded my email and all my friends from facebook. I mean, who are they? Why should I trust them? Amazingly, the first pages of any google search for info are all to the website itself, and others read like paid adverts. So definitely don't trust them and wish there was more balanced info available. The one critical article is footnote 27 on wikpedia page, now appears to have been scrubbed from the 'net. Wow. Thanks. BD. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.180.96.126 (talk) 06:09, 6 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

UPDATE THIS!

We really need more modern references than 2012- this site lists NO "About", "Who We Are", or "Contact" info. Who is the editor, what are the procedures for listing, how big is their operation, what prejudices might they have? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.163.85.5 (talk) 18:17, 29 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Censorship Quote From CEO

I added a quote of sorts from the CEO from https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/blue-sky/ct-twitter-leader-trump-election-20170520-story.html, but its placement doesn't look good to me. I think it should go at the top, but I would like suggestions on how to better integrate it into the censorship section.

The relevant sentence was: "Williams also says he was wrong thinking that the world would be a better place if there was a platform for everyone to freely speak and exchange ideas." 99.106.93.88 (talk) 23:39, 14 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

What is the point of having their network systems listed

This seems erroneous and only useful to people with bad intentions, a large portion of websites use AWS as well as Node.js. If this was useful information we would see sections on the system architecture of all major business websites. Please remove this section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.143.52.250 (talk) 21:21, 8 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Political stance

I think this website skews to the left.

Agree or disagree? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.119.235.132 (talk) 01:15, 13 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Why is Malaysia surrounded by Deltas?

These seem to add nothing to the article, as not footnotes are provided. I will be removing these from the text if there is not farther objection. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ZachT1234 (talk • contribs) 11:46, 22 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

RfC for Cuepoint started

An RfC has been started to determine the reliability of the Medium publication Cuepoint. Your participation is welcomed. TheSandDoctor ^Talk 17:34, 9 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Question: Pronoun Refers to ...?

Quote: The change is to its mix of paid journalists working on its own publications ... Whose publications? The second "its" in this sentence refers to what or whom, please? In the meantime I edited this (in my mind, while reading), to say "... paid journalists working on their own publications ..." Or does "its" refer to the same noun in both cases, and Medium has many of its own publications? As in "... paid journalists working on Medium's own publications ..." Should that word in the article be edited one way or the other, to clarify? John Hicks (talk) 15:04, 8 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Reading further, I see: "Publications" on Medium are shared spaces with a homepage on Medium's website that carry articles and blog posts, like a newspaper or magazine.

Then edit the earlier sentence as follows? The change is to its mix of paid journalists working on their own publications ... John Hicks (talk) 15:20, 8 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]