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New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Please stop writing tutorials/tech articles on Medium

Ask HN: Please stop writing tutorials/tech articles on Medium
503 by gls2ro | 233 comments on Hacker News.
Let me put this as simple as I can: Writing tutorials on Medium means you are putting them behind a paywall, thus restricting learning opportunities. Medium is not StackOverflow, it limits the number of articles that can be freely read. If you ever learned something from a blog or from stackoverflow do contribute back by sharing your knowledge open on the internet not behind a paywall.

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