There’s been many innovations for sharing, video, music, and images. But writing was still stuck in the past; micronized in social networks; littered with ads and paywalls; or shared through cluttered, disorganized blogs–Medium usurps all of that.

“Writing is about spreading ideas, it’s about entertainment, it connects us, and Medium has streamlined the entire process. “

Medium has empowered the voice of the individual and its built a haven for communities. The comment system revolutionizes interaction allowing users to comment specifically, down to the word. As a result, interacting with the author is intuitive: It makes them accessible in the most relevant way to the reader, something no other publisher has been able to do.

Medium grows ideas

A social network succeeds when it creates community. Medium’s users form collectives around topics of interest. Editing can be crowd sourced before publishing. Sharing is simple, internally, or across the web. All of this enables each community to grow rich with diversity, creating a flourishing ecosystem of thought.

“Medium is what the web has been missing, it equalizes the plane between freelance blogger and professional journalist by uniting the web with fair access to share ideas that could change the world”

You may be thinking, “This has been done before, it’s called blogs.” and I’d be inclined to agree with you, and so too probably would Medium’s creators; the founders of twitter and Blogger, Ev Williams and Biz Stone, neither of who are unfamiliar with game changing web ideas.

However Medium builds on all of that. It’s the modern result of a web that is powered by collective thought, and shaped by the radical individuality of all using the internet.

Medium changes everything.