Medium

Tools and Apps SharingAngelene Lyu Xiaolin

Everyone’s stories and ideas

https: //medium.com

INTRODUCTION

FEATURES

THOUGHTS

INTRODUCTION

• A Blog Host, A Social Journalism Example

Medium is an online publishing platform developed by Blogger and Twitter’s co-founder Evan Williams in August 2012.

It gathers professional writers and also amateur writing about social issues on this platform, which is regularly regarded as a blog host. People login Medium usually with Twitter Facebook or Google account. So, it is also seen as an example of evolved SOCIAL JOURNALISM

More than Twitter’s 140-character

MaximumWebsite & Mobile Apps

Separated and Independent Social Media Platform of Twitter’s BrandOwn Online

Publications

Simple User Interface

Easily Understood User Instruction

FEATURES1. WYRIWYG Writing Interface

Medium PC Writing Interface

WYRIWYG is for “What You Write Is What You Get”. A WYSIWYG editor is a system in which content (text and graphics) can be edited in a form closely resembling its appearance when printed or displayed as a finished product.

Medium’s simple user interface also allow user to use rich text format and view the outcome when they are editing

FEATURES1. WYRIWYG Writing Interface

Medium Mobile Writing Interface

WYRIWYG is for “What You Write Is What You Get”. A WYSIWYG editor is a system in which content (text and graphics) can be edited in a form closely resembling its appearance when printed or displayed as a finished product.

Medium’s simple user interface also allow user to use rich text format and view the outcome when they are editing

FEATURES2. Theme-Based Mode

Instead of Showing and Suggesting People for your preference, Medium Suggests and Shows Tags you preferred.

Recent Heated Topics and Issues will be presented on the top of the pages right behind the Title

FEATURES2. Theme-Based ModeTheme-Based Mode instead of timeline-based mode is kind of a revolution for social media platforms.

On Medium, firstly, when user starts to write his own stories, he does not need to set up his own blog as he always did on WordPress or Blogger.

Secondly, a writer does not need to worry about nobody comes to their blog site since their articles is under certain tags/ themes. User who interested in those themes are more likely to read the writer’s words when he browsing the theme page.

Thirdly, creating a tags is to some extent constricted. Not like Instagram or Facebook that users can create hashtag whatever they like, Only a small group of professional User on Medium has the right to edit tags. The role of Individual is blurred that makes user more concentrate on ideas and words

FEATURES3. Recommendation and Sharing

FunctionsThe recommendation and sharing functions are

similar to Twitter’s.

Articles can be shared to different themes either by

reader or by author.

The page will recommend articles by reader’s

recommendations rather than the reputation or

authority of the writer.

MY OWN THOUGHTSHIGHLIGHTS:• A platform with equality and opennessAs a user-generated platform, Medium is more focus on content rather than individual user, so everyone on the platform Is equal and can equally share their stories and opinions.

• High quality Medium could be seen as a blogging revolution that boost the Innovation of blog. It does not follow timeline to present social user content that makes user to more concentrate on the quality instead of instantaneity. Personally thinking, it is a good place for journalists to write insightful report and analysis towards certain social issues.

• Good user experience on writing and readingDue to its simple user-friendly interface design, it gives reader and writer a good experience on reading and writing, It could be seen as an good example for content-based news/ social media apps or website

WEAKNESS:• Lack of social interactionUnlike other social media platform, users cannot mutually follow each other or have private chat on Medium.

• Hard to trace Subscriptions The online Medium publications is for users to subscribe to. However, on the homepage，medium does not pushusers 'subscriptions, which make it hard for users to update their subscriptions

• Lack of instantaneityUnlike typical news apps or websites, medium does not focus on the instantaneity, which means it does not contain breaking news and the articles may some kind not follow the latest news update.

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