Title: Medium.com is still up and running so it hasn&#x27;t failed exactly, but it&#x27;s not the best platform to go to anymore when it comes to blogging.<p>The post quality has deteriorated, and it feels like I&#x27;m reading the same posts over and over again. Not to mention the stupid paywall which is infuriating.<p>Why did Medium end up like this? In the beginning it was pretty good but then it started to wither. Is there any way for a platform like Medium to keep up with high quality posts while also paying their writers well?<p>Substack has done a good job at competing in the blogging market but it&#x27;s different from Medium. Medium is more of a social blogging platform while Substack is more of a newsletter platform. Substack doesn&#x27;t have an algorithm that recommends you content, but instead shows you exactly who you follow. This is nice, but I can&#x27;t deny that I also like finding new content through a recommendation engine, which Medium <i>also</i> sucks at.
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