Static HTML is not disruptive enough, I guess.Īnd it has been a common theme with them. Putting letters on a webpage is “impossible” without collecting your profile. Yes, Medium will collect your profile even if you are not a registered user and explicitly ask them not to do it. What happened here? And I only get to access the 15 latest publications? At least I hope they are latest.Īnother interesting point is that they are really eager to block embeds that do not respect Do Not Track header but do not respect DNT themselves. Sort of, but Medium does not have a non-algorithmic (linear, that is) feed. You can always follow people on Medium, you would say. You just get random phrases with no context in your feed instead of articles: I mean Medium does serve RSS, but they serve it with replies and it turns the whole idea into a non-usable mess. If anyone decides to blog on Medium regularly, there’s no way to follow them through RSS. This is an image attached here, not a text quoteīut the misadventures do not end here. In fact, popup menu makes it harder for me because I can’t safely select text and adjust selection anymore.Īnd yes, it does attach an image of you selecting a text on Medium instead of just quoting the text. I’m perfectly capable of posting links and quotes on Twitter without any popup menus (and without converting them into an image first). In spite of the fact that it’s a plain freaking text.īut maybe that popup is useful? I don’t know.
And if you accidentally click it (which is really easy to do because it pops up right under your cursor) you’ll be redirected to the login page (and lose your reading position) because God forbids unauthenticated users would try to do anything with their platform.
You had one job: don’t mess it up.Įvery time you select text an annoying popup shows up. I mean, you don’t have to do anything special with text, it was designed to look fine by default. They literally (yes, literally) take up 25% of your vertical space (and vertical space is very valuable, especially for text columns and horizontal screens):Īre you sure I have to look at this 2-storey 100px header ALL THE TIME?įor contrast, this is how it could’ve look like without Medium styling: nice and pleasant to read. If you get through banners and set down to read anything, you will be surrounded by HUGE sticky header, sticky footer and sticky social media controls: At the same time, most of Medium articles look and read worse than just plaintext HTML. Medium is advertising itself as a reader-oriented experience. I guess reading text from a webpage is too old-school: If they open your link on a phone, Medium will really, really, really insist on installing an app. If you think about publishing an article, starting a blog or even just sharing a short rant on Medium, please consider what you’ll be putting your readers through.Įvery Medium article will greet each person who opens your link with a huge full-page banner every time: Kind of like Blogger a while back, it just seems what everybody has been doing (unless you are really nit-picky and care enough to host your own thing).Īnd kind of like Blogger, Medium is a terrible thing for publishing. Many people choose Medium lately as their go-to platform to blog.