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Medium

Medium is a general-purpose blogging platform owned by A Medium Corporation. It ranks #8 among developer community platforms at roughly 29.3% usage share. Developers publish here for the large built-in reader audience and clean typography — long-form tutorials, "how I built X" project write-ups, and opinion pieces do especially well, though most articles sit behind a metered paywall after a reader's free monthly views run out.

Quick facts
Type: Blogging platform
Owned by: A Medium Corporation
Cost: Freemium — free to read/write a limited amount, paid Membership unlocks unlimited reading and partner-program earnings
Best content type: Long-form tutorials, project retrospectives, opinion pieces
Primary use case: Publishing polished long-form technical writing to a built-in reader audience

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How to use it well

Discovery on Medium runs through publications and tags, not a follower-only feed. Submitting a well-written article to an established publication (which has its own subscriber base and editorial curation) gets far more reach than posting solo, and tagging correctly determines which topic feeds it surfaces in.

// typical submission + tagging pattern
Publication: "Better Programming"  // or: Level Up Coding, freeCodeCamp
Tags (max 5): "javascript", "react", "web-development",
              "programming", "software-engineering"

// article URL pattern once published
medium.com/better-programming/your-article-slug-a1b2c3d4e5f6

Getting started

Sign up free with an email or Google account, write a draft in the built-in editor, then look for a publication accepting submissions in your topic (most list submission guidelines in their "About" page) before hitting publish, rather than posting to your personal profile alone.

# find publications actively accepting submissions
medium.com/search?q=write+for+us+programming

Best for: Developers who want to publish a polished, long-form tutorial or project retrospective and reach readers beyond their own following, via publication curation and tag-based discovery.