Medium.com vs Stackoverflow.com

Medium is an American online publishing distributing platform created by Evan Williams and launched in August 2012. It is owned by A Medium Corporation. The platform is an example of social news-casting, having a hybrid collection of amateur and expert people and distributions, or select websites or publications on Medium, and is regularly regarded as a blog host. 

Williams, previously co-founder of Blogger and Twitter, initially created Medium as a way to publish writings and documents longer than Twitter's 140-character (presently 280-character) maximum. 

Medium has been focusing on optimizing the time guests spend reading the website (1.5 million hours in March 2015), instead of boosting the size of its audience. In 2015, Williams criticized the standard web traffic metric of remarkable guests as "an highly volatile and unimportant number for what we're attempting to do". According to the organization, as of May 2017, Medium.com had 60 million unique monthly readers. 

Medium representatives announced their aim to form a trade union with CODE-CWA in February 2021. According to the Medium Workers Union, 70% of eligible employees have signed union cards, representing workers in editorial, engineering, design and product departments. On February 11, they requested management for voluntary acknowledgment of their union. On March 1, the organization reported that the Medium Workers Union had fallen one vote short of the number required for union recognition. 

In March 2021, Medium reported a change of its publishing procedure and business model. The change is to its mix of paid columnists dealing with its own journalists – this will be proportionally reduced – versus its support of independent writers, which will surely increase.

Stack Overflow is a question and answer site for professional and devotee programmers. It is a privately held site, the leader site of the Stack Exchange Network. It features questions and answers on a wide range of topics in computer programming. It was created to be a more open to earlier question and answer sites like Experts-Exchange. The name for the site was chosen by voting in April 2008 by readers of Coding Horror, Atwood's famous programming blog. 

The site serves as a platform for users to ask and answer questions, and, through membership and active participation, to vote questions and answers up or down and edit questions and answers in a fashion like a wiki or Reddit. Users of Stack Overflow can earn reputation points and "badges"; for instance, an individual is granted 10 reputation points for accepting an "up" vote on a question or an answer to a question, and can get badges for their esteemed contributions, which represents a gamification of the traditional Q&A site. users open new privileges with an increase in reputation like the ability to vote, comment, and even edit other peoples posts. All users generated content is authorized under Creative Commons Attribute-ShareAlike license, version 2.5, 3.0, or 4.0 depending on the date the substance was contributed. 

The site was created by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky in 2008. On 31 July 2008, Jeff Atwood sent out invitations urging his subscribers to participate in the private beta of the new site, limiting its use to those willing to try out the new software. On 15 September 2008 it was declared that the public beta version was in meeting and that the overall population was currently ready to use it to look for help on programming related issues. The design of the Stack Overflow logo was chosen by a voting process. 

As of January 2019 Stack Overflow has more than 10 million registered users, and it surpassed 16 million inquiries in mid 2018. Based on the type of tags assigned to questions, the main eight most discussed topics on the site are: JavaScript, Java, C#, PHP, Android, Python, jQuery, and HTML. 

Stack Overflow likewise has a Jobs area to help designers in tracking down their next opportunity. For employers, Stack Overflow provides tools to brand their business, advertise their openings on the site, and source candidates from Stack Overflow's database of developers who are available to being contacted. In 2019, Stack Overflow named Prashanth Chandrasekar as its CEO and Teresa Dietrich as its chief product official.