THE MEDIUM ENDING CODE

I would love to hear others speak out as FreeCodeCamp inadvertently did. And a lot of high profile people from the developer community are leaving Medium as a result. They are doing this to a lot of publications. Then they started threatening us with a lawyer.Īssuming what they are saying is true, Medium quite literally extorted a charity. So they tried to buy us (Which makes no sense. They have pressured us to put our articles behind their paywalls. Our open source community sends Medium about 5% of their total traffic.īut over the past year, Medium has become more aggressive toward us. Specifically he says,įreeCodeCamp is the biggest publication on Medium. The email explains how Medium strong-armed the non-profit, eventually causing them to leave the platform. Recently, an email written by FreeCodeCamp founder, was leaked on twitter. We also have thousands of freeCodeCamp study groups around the world. We accomplish this by creating thousands of videos, articles, and interactive coding lessons - all freely available to the public.

THE MEDIUM ENDING CODE

Our mission: to help people learn to code for free. Reason 2: There are much better reasons to dislike Medium Slimy Business TacticsįreeCodeCamp is a charity that provides free resources for developers. Once you've written a post you're presented with the below dialogue.Įven if the author decides to opt-in for the paywall they can still obtain a paywall-less link to distribute at their discretion. If you've run into paywalled content, it means that the author of that specific piece of content opted-in to the paywall. Reason 1: Authors Put Up the Paywall, Not Medium I have two major problems with this attitude. Let's start avoiding paywalled services like - Bharath Ramsundar May 18, 2019 It feels like inviting academic paywalls back into the tech world. Proliferating paywalls on blog articles is an unpleasant future. I'm sure this blog post is excellent, but paywall is preventing me from reading it. I started seeing a lot of tweets similar to this one: In the last couple weeks, there's been a lot of backlash against Medium in response to the infamous 'Paywall'.

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