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Alternatives to Medium

WordPress, Acquia, Blogger, Tumblr, and Quora are the most popular alternatives and competitors to Medium.
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What is Medium and what are its top alternatives?

Medium is a different kind of place on the internet. A place where the measure of success isn’t views, but viewpoints. Where the quality of the idea matters, not the author’s qualifications. A place where conversation pushes ideas forward.
Medium is a tool in the Hosted Blogging Platforms category of a tech stack.

Top Alternatives to Medium

  • WordPress
    WordPress

    The core software is built by hundreds of community volunteers, and when you’re ready for more there are thousands of plugins and themes available to transform your site into almost anything you can imagine. Over 60 million people have chosen WordPress to power the place on the web they call “home” — we’d love you to join the family. ...

  • Acquia
    Acquia

    The leader in enterprise Drupal solutions providing a powerful cloud-native platform to build, operate, and optimize your digital experience. It provide enterprise products, services, and technical support for the open-source web content management platform Drupal. ...

  • Blogger
    Blogger

    Since Blogger was launched in 1999, blogs have reshaped the web, impacted politics, shaken up journalism, and enabled millions of people to have a voice and connect with others. ...

  • Tumblr
    Tumblr

    Tumblr is a feature rich and free blog hosting platform offering professional and fully customizable templates, bookmarklets, photos, mobile apps, and social network. The site now ranks as the 11th-largest in terms of traffic, according to Quantcast, with 170 million monthly visitors globally. ...

  • Quora
    Quora

    It connects you to everything you want to know about. Quora aims to be the easiest place to write new content and share content from the web. We organize people and their interests so you can find, collect and share the information most valuable to you. ...

  • WP Engine
    WP Engine

    WP Engine provides best-in-class customer service on top of innovation-driven technology. This is why over 30,000 customers in 120 countries have chosen us for their mission critical WordPress hosting needs. ...

  • Pantheon
    Pantheon

    Stop struggling with version control, staging environments, backups, and workflow. Pantheon makes best practices easy. It’s 100% free for developers. ...

  • Kinsta
    Kinsta

    They provide high performance hosting on Google Apps servers, which means your site runs on the same infrastructure as Google ...

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    Customizable
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    Easy to manage
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    Plugins & themes
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    Non-tech colleagues can update website content
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    Really powerful
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    Rapid website development
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    Best documentation
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    Codex
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    Product feature set
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    Custom/internal social network
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    Open source
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    Great for all types of websites
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    Huge install and user base
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    Perfect example of user collaboration
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    Open Source Community
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    Most websites make use of it
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    It's simple and easy to use by any novice
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    Best
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    I like it like I like a kick in the groin
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    Community
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    API-based CMS
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    Easy To use
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    <a href="https://secure.wphackedhel">Easy Beginner</a>
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    Hard to keep up-to-date if you customize things
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    Plugins are of mixed quality
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    Not best backend UI
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    Complex Organization
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    Do not cover all the basics in the core
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    Great Security

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Independent Contractor at Self Employed · | 22 upvotes · 1.5M views

I've heard that I have the ability to write well, at times. When it flows, it flows. I decided to start blogging in 2013 on Blogger. I started a company and joined BizPark with the Microsoft Azure allotment. I created a WordPress blog and did a migration at some point. A lot happened in the time after that migration but I stopped coding and changed cities during tumultuous times that taught me many lessons concerning mental health and productivity. I eventually graduated from BizSpark and outgrew the credit allotment. That killed the WordPress blog.

I blogged about writing again on the existing Blogger blog but it didn't feel right. I looked at a few options where I wouldn't have to worry about hosting cost indefinitely and Jekyll stood out with GitHub Pages. The Importer was fairly straightforward for the existing blog posts.

Todo * Set up redirects for all posts on blogger. The URI format is different so a complete redirect wouldn't work. Although, there may be something in Jekyll that could manage the redirects. I did notice the old URLs were stored in the front matter. I'm working on a command-line Ruby gem for the current plan. * I did find some of the lost WordPress posts on archive.org that I downloaded with the waybackmachinedownloader. I think I might write an importer for that. * I still have a few Disqus comment threads to map

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Siddhant Sharma
Tech Connoisseur at Channelize.io · | 12 upvotes · 1.1M views

WordPress Magento PHP Java Swift JavaScript

Back in the days, we started looking for a date on different matrimonial websites as there were no Dating Applications. We used to create different profiles. It all changed in 2012 when Tinder, an Online Dating application came into India Market.

Tinder allowed us to communicate with our potential soul mates. That too without paying any extra money. I too got 4-6 matches in 6 years. It changed the life of many Millennials. Tinder created a revolution of its own. P.S. - I still don't have a date :(

Posting my first article. Please have a look and do give feedback.

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Acquia

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Drupal Hosting Platform
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    Unbeatable fast response 24h support
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    Trusted by the biggest companies worldwide
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    Enterprise grade quality platform
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      Widegets
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      Settings of the blog pags :v
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      Dale Ross
      Independent Contractor at Self Employed · | 22 upvotes · 1.5M views

      I've heard that I have the ability to write well, at times. When it flows, it flows. I decided to start blogging in 2013 on Blogger. I started a company and joined BizPark with the Microsoft Azure allotment. I created a WordPress blog and did a migration at some point. A lot happened in the time after that migration but I stopped coding and changed cities during tumultuous times that taught me many lessons concerning mental health and productivity. I eventually graduated from BizSpark and outgrew the credit allotment. That killed the WordPress blog.

      I blogged about writing again on the existing Blogger blog but it didn't feel right. I looked at a few options where I wouldn't have to worry about hosting cost indefinitely and Jekyll stood out with GitHub Pages. The Importer was fairly straightforward for the existing blog posts.

      Todo * Set up redirects for all posts on blogger. The URI format is different so a complete redirect wouldn't work. Although, there may be something in Jekyll that could manage the redirects. I did notice the old URLs were stored in the front matter. I'm working on a command-line Ruby gem for the current plan. * I did find some of the lost WordPress posts on archive.org that I downloaded with the waybackmachinedownloader. I think I might write an importer for that. * I still have a few Disqus comment threads to map

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      Tumblr logo

      Tumblr

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      Tumblr lets you effortlessly share anything.
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      PROS OF TUMBLR
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        Free
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        Easy setup
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        Modern Layout
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        Simple
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        Feature rich
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        Mobile App
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        No ads on blogs
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        Backed by Yahoo
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        Blogging simplified
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        Fully customizable HTML/CSS
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        Free personal domain mapping
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        Rich, flexible API for rich themes
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          Can ask any type of question
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          Easy to use
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          Low moderation
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          Pantheon

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            Quality customer service
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            One of the most fast hosting platforms out there
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            Wonderful platform, people fast and secure this can be
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