Introducing Ⓜ️ Meddler! A Medium Export Converter

Two of the best features of Medium are the fact you can export your email subscribers list and export your entire account, including your writing . Why are these two of the best features? Because this means that, at anytime, you can take both your work and audience to another platform. What happens when platforms don't offer this? When Vine shut down in 2017, creators lost years of work overnight. When Yahoo acquired and then killed Geocities, an estimated 38 million user-built pages vanished . More recently, platforms like Cohost and Revue closed with limited or no export options. Even Substack's export gives you a basic CSV, which is not a simple plug-and-play for your new blog. Medium, to its credit, lets you take your data with you. The problem is, though, the export of your work? For anybody that's used the export feature, they know it has a few issues. Medium provides a GDPR-compliant data export in the form of a .zip archive containing HTML files. While this preserves content, t