A Quick Little Test
Hey, I’m not quite sure yet if I’m a fan of Medium. Their text is a bit too big, and I wish it was left-adjusted, as text appears in Facebook and Quora, because I think it’s actually easier to read it that way.
But these posts do look pretty slick, so maybe I will prefer this. It would also help a lot because that means I don’t have to build my own blogging infrastructure.
Typing actually is pretty nice.
I do enjoy it.
Here’s a link to my personal website
Why won’t it scroll down, I hate how it doesn’t let me scroll past where I am…
Oh well, I just inserted some spaces.
I prefer writing one or two sentence paragraphs, so hopefully it works well for my style.
Line. Break.
Actually I find short ‘sentences’ like that to be a bit tacky.
Oh. Well.
Haha maybe I should publish this post anyway…
I really do hope that I end up liking Medium enough to use it. I’ll totally start using it professionally, plus the analytics that come with Medium should be sufficient, right?
I wonder how they define a ‘read’. Is it someone who landed on the page, or is it someone who was active on the page for a detailed amount of time?
Again, I’m not a fan of how big this text is, I don’t think it’s very efficient.
Maybe I’ll start writing shorter posts.
I also don’t like how I have to scroll more because of it. Damn it. I really like 95% of it though. I think I’m going to have to settle. Just because it saves me like 40 hours of programming time. Plus it’ll be easier to sell as a service, probably. Actually I have no idea, maybe people do like custom blogs. I wonder how much custom CMS infrastructure exists.
Holy shit, I’ve never written anything on Medium and I have almost 100 followers! How did that even happen? I wonder how many ‘reads’ this will get. If the number is greater than 20, I bet it’s bullshit.
It’d be awesome if large numbers of people came to read this though, especially in the future.
Italics.
Bold.
Oh shit now I’m writing over here!
This could be fun.
I don’t really ever have images though
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Maybe I should just make the whole thing a bunch of images so that the lines are narrower.
This is too narrow though.
Uhhh…
I want to use the rest of this space. Now I’m at the end, how long will they keep this up? What if — woah now I’m over here again.
Anyway, if they ever change their styling, this post won’t make any sense. I guess this doesn’t make much sense anyway.
Whenever I choose whether or not to read something, I typically scroll down to see how much there is to read, and this makes it feel like this post is crazy long.
Also I’m not a huge fan of the — (dash). — — — Damn it. Oh well, I get that’s the actual way to write a dash, but I like having a space. asdf-adsf. But that’s no good. -adsf- I guess I can do that? Meh.
I generally write something and instead of a colon, I prefer using dashes, but now I can’t anymore :(
- ooh
- but
- it
- makes
- a
- list
I’m sure there are plenty of other tricks to visit, but I think I’m going to wrap this up shortly.
BAM THIS IS ALEX FROM THE FUTURE 3 SECONDS AFTER POSTING THIS TO TEST OUT EDITING, ALTHOUGH ANYONE WHO ACTUALLY READS THIS IS READING THIS AFTER I POST IT SO I GUESS THAT MEANS I’M NOT ACTUALLY ALEX FROM THE FUTURE!!!
Ooh should I add an image?
I don’t have many good images for these.
Maybe I’ll publish this with an unsplash image just to make it look good.
“Quote. Oh that’s like Italics with a bar on the side. Just pretend I’m saying this in Abe Lincoln’s voice. Holy shit. I actually don’t know how Abe Lincoln sounds! Oh, but they say he had a surprisingly high-pitched voice, I guess. Hmmm. Okay not Lincoln, this was all said by Morgan Freeman. Now re-read it in his voice.”
- Technically Potentially Said By Morgan Freeman
Wow, I just re-read that quote in Morgan Freeman’s voice and it totally worked. Human brains are incredible.
Go read On Intelligence. -> Leads to Amazon, and I’m not even going to get paid for affiliate. That’s how good it is.
Okay.
Good work team.
Now how the hell do you publish?
Oh nevermind, there it is.
