By the way, we didn’t write the tagline for this post. Medium’s great, but “is this as beautiful as Medium?” isn’t the question we had in mind when we built Atavist.
Not as beautiful as Medium. The interface is way less intuitive/fluid/elegant, though it is in some ways more powerful. You can add more effects (like parallax) so the idea of "Snowfall in the cloud" is more realized here.
The most interesting part of this is the "sell your work" component. Unlike Medium, which does have some distribution benefits that Atavist doesn't, Atavist is intended to help self-publishers make actual money.
But despite the claim in the tagline here, it's simply not as pretty OR easy to use.
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