Follow-up to yesterday's post re Ev and Joi, Medium and the open web. There was one big problem in hooking Medium up to my blog, after I added Instant Articles support in my feed. 

I had to create a special feed just or Medium because the IFTTT connection choked on the IA support. It's true Facebook could have done something to make this not happen, but they didn't. And as discussed yesterday, to some extent we are all trying to co-exist in Facebook's publishing ecosystem. 

So my advice to Medium and/or IFTTT, please make sure you can handle an IA-capable feed. I'm leading-edge on this, I suspect this will become a big issue for you soon. 

I would actually like to see Medium embrace RSS directly instead of depending in IFTTT to act as an intermediary. It's a pretty well-established standard by now. Why not embrace it and make life a little easier for the publishers?