A fact fromMedium (website) appeared on Wikipedia'sMain Page in theDid you know column on 18 October 2013 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... thatTechCrunch's Drew Olanoff thoughtMedium, the service created byTwitter's founders, got its name from being a "medium" size platform in between that andBlogger? A record of the entry may be seen atWikipedia: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 revealedsignificant coverage in multiple, independent, reliable sources. Indeed, there was enough coverage inTechCrunch,The Guardian andThe Wall Street Journal (amongst others) tonominate it for a "Did you know" on the front page. --Ritchie333^(talk)(cont)16:47, 13 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I mean, Ithink 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 justMedium (website)?–Totie (talk)07:26, 12 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I'd go forMedium (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 toMedium (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.GeraldWL13:03, 1 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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 :faqblog,trac— Precedingunsigned comment added by131.254.145.74 (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.— Precedingunsigned comment added by49.180.96.126 (talk)06:09, 6 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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?— Precedingunsigned comment added by188.163.85.5 (talk)18:17, 29 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I added a quote of sorts from the CEO fromhttps://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]

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.— Precedingunsigned comment added by24.143.52.250 (talk)21:21, 8 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I think this website skews to the left.

Agree or disagree?— Precedingunsigned comment added by172.119.235.132 (talk)01:15, 13 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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.— Precedingunsigned comment added byZachT1234 (talk •contribs)11:46, 22 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

An RfC has been started to determine thereliability of the Medium publicationCuepoint. Your participation is welcomed.TheSandDoctor^Talk17:34, 9 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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]

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