Comment by Mehdi Aoussiad on "Hashnode is the new medium for the tech community!"

Hi, Sam nice article. Hashnode is a great place for blogging. What's more amazing is that it's free.

I have been writing on Medium for almost a year now and I really loved it. There is a huge audience for developers on Medium too. If you check out the popular publications on Medium, you will realize that most of them are related to programming and software development.

For example, "better programming" has over 100k followers. "JavaScript in plain English" has more than 50k followers. There is a huge audience on Medium that pays 5$/month to read programming content. Medium is more like a social platform, if you're thinking about ranking on Google, having your own blog is the best option.

But Medium has a built-in audience, I write about frontend and JavaScript stuff. Even if I don't get ranked on Google, I still have the chance to get thousands of reads from the existing Medium audience. Some of my articles got over 20k views without ranking on Google.

You can add code snippets on Medium too. You can use a chrome extension, embed a GitHub gist, or use backticks to do that.

That's awesome that you've been able to find an audience on Medium! As a creator, I think it's smart to be present on all the major platforms, or at least as many as you can juggle at once!

Thanks to canonical URLs, we're no longer penalized for "duplicated content" and so it pays to syndicate your work across the web. Still, you have to make a choice about where your canonical content will live.

In my opinion, Hashnode is the best option. Especially given the latest news about the migration to Vercel and Next.js 11. No other platform can even begin to compete with the kind of performance that's now standard on Hashnode.

It's worth your effort to try to reach your audience on as many platforms as possible. But in terms of where the master copy should live, I think Hashnode is the clear winner.

Sam Sycamore Hashnode gives you more freedom as a blogger, you can customize your blog as you want. You really feel that you own a blog and it's yours.

On the other hand, Medium doesn't give you all the customization and features that Hashnode offers. Also, you don't really own your blog 100%, your account can be banned at any time if you break their rules. The good thing about Medium is that they have a partner program, they pay their writers every month depending on how many reads and engagement they get. There are writers that make thousands of dollars every month, but those are maybe less than 5% of the writers.

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