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24 lines
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title: Medium.com as my "a website can do that?" moment
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date: 2023-02-14T22:31:08.484Z
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slug: 2023-02-14-medium-can-do-that
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author: Thomas Wilson
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In the early 2010s, when I was a post-grad (not a professional), I started writing online. And my first blog was on Medium.com. And the writing experience there was *excellent*.
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I think that was one of my earliest \"a website can do that?!\" moments. I don't want to forget that feeling.
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The buttery spacious experience of writing and laying out your piece felt like what every WYSIWYG editor should want to be. The words *looked* beautiful and it did Just Work™️. It wasn't clunky buttons, and impossible-to-escape-or-indent lists (looking at you Notion and JIRA).
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It's like the first time you *smell* fresh cookies coming out of the oven, or watch someone make music up close, or witness someone really *use* photoshop.
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It's one step before \"I think I could make something like this\".
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And it was a website. A website that didn't have Google money or Google brains. A website that wasn't just plain forms and tables.
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Medium might have tried to scale too far and fumbled the monetisation, discoverability, and editorial aspects. I might have left Medium and taken a hard stance on markdown as the One True Format. But that text editor was really fucking cool, and I hope all the folks who imagined that product into my browser in 2014 knew that.
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