I’m concerned with the move that FreeCodeCamp just pulled by leaving Medium
My bigger concerns right now are that FreeCodeCamp seems to have pulled this off in a way that likely violates the terms of their agreement, explicit or implicit, with Medium and all of the authors of their publication. All articles once posted to FreeCodeCamp’s Medium publication now redirect to articles that look like this:
I know for a fact that the author of that post did not consent to having their content moved off of Medium (where they can accrue followers, distribution, and generally partake in their initial agreement with Medium). In fact, here’s what Medium said in regards to the HackerNoon issue:
FreeCodeCamp seems to have just pulled the plug and taken everyone’s Medium content with them, to be displayed in a different context, wiping out the canonical URLS, while depriving the authors their ability to edit, delete, or manage in any way.
Source: dev.to