In addition, their SEO abilities are great, one of my articles on formatting Lisp code is now the highest ranked post on Google :)
(Link: https://link.medium.com/NbSWkq4hJcb )
However, Medium has some issues:
- No syntax highlighting on code (big issue for programming blogs) - No color options (would like an accent colour) - No Mathjax or Latex support (this is a bit too niche for most blogs)
Running my own website has a lot of pluses and I’m well versed in creating static websites for free (particularly like vanilla html / css / JavaScript on GitHub Pages), but I will never get the SEO rankings or audience that Medium can give me.
I honestly can’t find much alternatives. I basically want Medium with a syntax highlighter but I don’t see any blog platform that does this?
What do you guys recommend? Not just for my use case but in general for programming blogs.
Substack looks like an option, but it requires you to bring your own audience, which, if I had, I would just do it via my own website since I have the technical skills for it (but for other writers, substack can be great as it packages up a mailing list + hosting very well).
I'm not entirely sure of the SEO implications (your own site would take precedence, but as for whether it would get the same boost from Medium views, I'm not certain), but possibly a good compromise between keeping the Medium community circulation and having it in your own space where you have more control.
It has many pros of medium, less cons imo. Beware that Hackernoon is a publication, so you can publish stories that will be reviewed, not really just anything like a press release.
the speed of writing of Emacs, with the reliability of a static code generator.
of course it has code highlights... and you can create images with plantuml.
to be honest I distrust developers that decide to blog on medium...why would you limit your audience inside a paywall like medium, linked in, etc. ?
when the greatest software such as linux and emacs are "free as in freedom".