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+title: Goodbye Medium
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+Today I moved away my blog from [Medium](http://medium.com).  
+Initially it was a great friendship. I loved the fonts, design and the easy discovery option.  
+But then things went south very fast.  
+
+First, it was super hard to configure custom domain. Later Medium stopped any support for domains for new customers.  
+
+Then, Medium started charging people money to read posts and blocked my content unless with annoying popup, asking people to pay first.  
+![medium paywall](/assets/medium1.png)
+
+The final stroke was the aggressive new design that leave no place for content.  
+![medium page](/assets/medium2.png)  
+
+So I decided to go all open source and in few nights configured a [jekyll blog](https://jekyllrb.com/).  
+Jekyll is awesome! It's an open source blogging template on top of Ruby.  
+I'm hosting it for free on top of [Github Pages](https://github.com/pages-themes) who has built in support for it.  
+
+Looks like I'm not the only one. The web is full with stories of [people](https://wptavern.com/freecodecamp-moves-off-of-medium-after-being-pressured-to-put-articles-behind-paywalls) who [left](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20745313) [Medium](https://medium.com/@dan_abramov/why-my-new-blog-isnt-on-medium-3b280282fbae) [becase](https://sylviesoul.com/reasons-you-should-leave-medium-now) of [the](https://arslan.io/2017/07/30/why-i-left-medium-and-moved-back-to-my-own-domain/) [recent](https://hackernoon.com/why-i-quit-my-medium-membership-909909657ba) [chages](https://praxis.fortelabs.co/why-im-leaving-medium/).
+
+### Transition
+The move is fairly simple and in order to export your content from Medium to Jek
+- Download your medium content into zip file from the settings page. 
+- Run the Ruby script in [this article](https://medium.com/@jameshamann/displaying-medium-posts-on-your-jekyll-website-7eef230309e4).
+- Configure [jekyll](https://jekyllrb.com/).
+- Deploy your new blog for free using Github Pages.
+- Enjoy a whole new add-free world for your content.
+
+### Next steps
+The basic theme is not great, I would love to upgrade the design someday, till them - focus on the content :)
+