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# Competition from Medium
- URL: https://numericcitizen.me/competition-from-medium/
- Published: 2020-08-31T12:26:24.000Z
- Updated: 2021-11-14T22:33:36.000Z
- Description: As I start experimenting with Substack, Medium is adding interesting features for bloggers and newsletters creators
- Author: JF Martin
- Tags: #substack, website

As I’m currently thinking about my “raison d’être” here on Substack, Medium is announcing a plethora of new features and changes to their platform. Many of them are directly in competition with Substack. One of them is the support for [newsletters feature](https://link.medium.com/WhjhKaeZn9?ref=numericcitizen.me). It is not new but they seem to put more energy in it as newsletters popularity is making a comeback. This all makes me pause a bit in regard to Substack. Here is why.

I’ve been on Medium since 2015\. After writing and posting a few important articles there, I entered a periode of silence because I didn’t like the way Medium was evolving. [I was wrong](https://numericcitizen.me/2019/05/25/i-was-wrong-about-medium/). I didn’t close my account. I came back last year to become a subscriber of their Partner Program and began to cross-post many of my longer articles already available on [https://numericcitizen.me](https://numericcitizen.me/), my main blog. And I made a few bucks (quite a few bucks actually) along the way. With time, my writing attracted nearly 700 followers. So, if I consider building a newsletter, on Medium, this is my starting point. Not bad at all if you ask me.

M.G. Siegler is pointing out in a recent post [the return of blogging](https://link.medium.com/wkq0j5s3n9?ref=numericcitizen.me) and the role Medium would like to play in this space. Blogging isn’t new but in this world of AI-generated feeds, blogging and newsletters are becoming tools of counter-expression. In recent months [I started using Mailbrew](https://app.mailbrew.com/apple%5Fobserver?ref=numericcitizen.me) which is a tool to create automatically-generated newsletters and I like it a lot. Those who subscribe to those are more likely to be coming back compared to other social media tools. In a word, [newsletters are here to stay](https://500ish.com/in-the-inbox-2f74ba442190?ref=numericcitizen.me). They can attract high quality subscribers.

So, I decided to give a try to Medium newsletters editing tools and created my own: [Numeric Citizen Tidbits](https://medium.com/numeric-citizen-tidbits?ref=numericcitizen.me). It is currently regrouping my most important articles of the last year. I’m quite happy with the end result. It has zero followers because it is unknown to the world. I could use Medium to post an article about its creation and ask for people to subscribe to it. It is on my to do list.

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Having a presence on Medium doesn’t exclude having one here on Substack, far from it. The idea of manually crafting newsletters requires careful planning. I wouldn’t be the only one being on both, Medium and Substack but for different purposes. M. G. Siegler is on both, [here](https://5ish.org/?ref=numericcitizen.me) and [there](https://500ish.com/?ref=numericcitizen.me). Why not me?

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