“HackerNoon is leaving Medium, but also trying to take rights for people's work”
Wanted to clarify why Hacker Noon had to move off Medium. Here’s why:<p>1. Medium decided it no longer wanted to support independent publications of curators and writers like us, The Awl (RIP), The Ringer, and others. 
2. Medium at one point allowed publications to monetize using promotions, but arbitrarily decided to cut those off earlier last year, which cut off many independent curators and publications from their sole revenue stream.
3. At the same time, Medium put ads on every page of our site, including pop up ads.<p>Hacker Noon 2.0 sent an email to contributors asking if they wanted to join our new community, and in exchange Hacker Noon asks for a non-exclusive license to the content, just like Medium. Contributors can remove the content at any time.<p>In the move to our new infrastructure, we will work hard to make sure links don’t break (which is what will happen now for Hacker Noon content still on Medium), never put any story behind a paywall, and be the best and most up-front amplify button for all people writing great tech content.<p>We’ve taken your feedback on the existing ToS for Hacker Noon and will be updating that soon. We are independent writers and curators ourselves, so we have no interest in owning your content.<p>We’re here to build a great community, and we hope you’ll join us. Thanks for your help and support.<p>Back to the Internet!<p>-David Smooke