If it were a post with some actual content I can see why you'd want to post it here for discussion but it is a meta post about the medium you write on, not an actual post. Not exactly hacker news. Personally I think medium is the new geocities, it'll implode one day and leave another big hole in the web unless archive.org or archiveteam get there first.
Beware of who you give control of your content.
Medium's editor was just a lot nicer.
My site's not particularly complex, but it comes out ahead speed wise on pingdom when compared to medium.
But at the end of the day, if you're blogging for your business/startup it makes more sense for it to be under your control as you can leverage the analytics and if possible turn them into conversions.
There are many, many places for long-form content that won't crash under load. Posterous's replacement, Tumblr, Wordpress.com, etc. "Not crashing" is a bizarre and bad reason to choose exclusively Medium.
Also, getting on the front page of Medium is mostly irrelevant since you have mostly nil personal branding anyways. If you're going to hit #1 on Hacker News, do it on a website you own with your own content.
Consolidating onto 'easy' vended services may work short-term, but will accelerate the transformation of the Web into 'channels' owned by media conglomerates. Opera Unite was a valiant effort to fight the transformation for 'normal folk' to use but sadly withered.
No-one much visits my blog so I don't have a problem with load, but several co-geeks have moved theirs into AWS to handle peaks. I still feel that's sort-of cheating but at least they retain control and technical nous.
As a reader, Quora gives me more insight about the author through answers on diverse topics.
Disclaimer: Quora fan here! Answer may be biased.
Don't forget Medium is brought to us from the makers of Twitter, with such classics as "Here's an API; get the fuck off of my API."
I don't know how to use terminal too much, I just learnt how to reset mysql AFTER my server crashed yesterday.
