Top stories published by The Medium Blog in 2015

Ever since Medium first launched in beta three years ago, we have sported a logo that is a big, bold, black-and-white slab-serif M, from the font Stag.

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Ev Williams in The Medium Blog

Oct 7, 2015

Taking Medium to the Next Level

Two years ago, we opened up Medium for anyone to write. It was a new, well-lit place for an old idea: letting people share their stories, their ideas, their unique perspectives.

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Ev Williams in The Medium Blog

May 20, 2015

Medium is not a publishing tool

Twelve years ago, I was heading Blogger at Google and frustrated we kept losing users to our competitors, like Movable Type from Six Apart. A common phenomenon at the time was that people would start blogging on Blogger — because it was free, popular, and easy to set up —…

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Jamie Talbot in The Medium Blog

Jun 29, 2015

Signing in to Medium by email

No Twitter or Facebook necessary… and no passwords either.

Until now, you could only sign in to Medium using Twitter or Facebook. Both these services make signing in quick and easy, and also allow us to build out…

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Medium Staff in The Medium Blog

Dec 21, 2015

Ideas That Moved Us in 2015

This year on Medium

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katie zhu in The Medium Blog

Jun 9, 2015

Introducing Letters

At Medium, we are building a new kind of media product — one centered around conversation and reaction, one where audience engagement is not an afterthought, but something fundamentally new and participatory at its core. The benefits of writing on Medium — into a thriving network, being…

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Andy Doyle in The Medium Blog

Sep 28, 2015

Medium’s New Funding Round

We are pleased to announce that Medium recently raised $57 million in capital. The round was led by new partner Andreessen Horowitz with significant participation from Google Ventures and Greylock Partners, who also led our Series A. We are also fortunate to count Obvious Ventures…

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Medium in The Medium Blog

Mar 11, 2015

Introducing Highlights

The most fun you can have on Medium with one hand

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Medium in The Medium Blog

Feb 23, 2015

Text Shots

You know that thing everybody does on Twitter where they screenshot some highlighted text to get around the 140 character limit? You know, like this?

These were the top 10 stories published by The Medium Blog in 2015. You can also dive into monthly archives for 2015 by using the calendar at the top of this page.