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Re: Can we all stop using Medium now?

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Post by reificator »

dickeytk wrote: post #36
DoctorOW wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The partner program isn't on by default, the paywall is. You do not need to be part of the partner program for the paywall. Source: https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/360018834314-Stori...

What on earth are you talking about? From the link you posted: > Stories become eligible to be part of the metered paywall if the writer selects that option in each story’s distribution setting. Medium will never meter a story without the writer’s permission. > During the publish flow, you have the opportunity to check the box to be eligible for curation review and distribution across Medium. Checking this box means…

Your second quote implies that the paywall and the partner program are separate.

Re: Can we all stop using Medium now?

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Post by manub22 »

55555 wrote: post #65

I was writing on Medium because it ranks well in Google. I wrote nearly a dozen really great articles on primarily health and dietary supplement topics. After 2 months they started to rank well and were getting daily readers, as the content was really great. Then I wrote an article on a 'research chemical' and they banned my account overnight. I lost the final edited versions of all content. They did not send me a zi…

It's better to create your own blog, and get traffic overtime. Why they earn money on your content?

Re: Can we all stop using Medium now?

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Post by eppsilon »

NightlyDev wrote: post #51
Hackbraten wrote: post #35

Please re-enable the `-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch;` CSS style for your content. The article is a pain to read on Mobile Safari because bouncy/rubber-band scrolling is disabled.

That feature has serious bugs on iOS, and that's probably why it's not the default as Apple can't get it to be stable. Don't ask him to add it, ask Apple, it's their fault. It's not a production feature. And since it's Apple, you can't just use another browser as it's all the same crap on iOS. You're stuck with something worse than the 2019 equivalent of IE6. iOS is a joke when it comes to web browsing.

It's probably not the the default because it disables the scrolling behavior used everywhere else on iOS. The "Safari is IE6" meme was briefly valid a couple years ago, but they've done a much better job more recently. (Check out the release notes for the technical previews.)

Re: Can we all stop using Medium now?

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Post by AngeloAnolin »

I've seen a lot of complaints about how Medium is becoming worse in terms of writing / publishing / blogging your thoughts on the internet [1]. I just don't see why no one (or group) has taken to building a similar service less the cruft and could still be a viable business.

[1] https://m.signalvnoise.com/signal-v-noise-exits-medium/

Re: Can we all stop using Medium now?

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Post by SCLeo »

wtmt wrote: post #109

Side note. I didn’t read this post for two reasons. On mobile, the lack of inertial scrolling makes it like pushing hard against some massive slush, and the lack of a scroll bar prevents me from knowing how long the article is and whether I should read it quickly now or check it later. A criticism on Medium, including its usability (I presume), should do a lot better if it wants to be read.

I am mobile and I have inertial scrolling. I think it is probably because you are using iOS safari.

iOS' inertial scrolling for some reason breaks very often. It happened to my website a couple times, and I had to fix with a bunch of css hacks.

Supporting iOS is just a pain. Sometimes, I would even rather support IE 11 than iOS.

(btw, all iOS browsers are forced to use safari render engine.)

Re: Can we all stop using Medium now?

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Post by calimac »

55555 wrote: post #65

I was writing on Medium because it ranks well in Google. I wrote nearly a dozen really great articles on primarily health and dietary supplement topics. After 2 months they started to rank well and were getting daily readers, as the content was really great. Then I wrote an article on a 'research chemical' and they banned my account overnight. I lost the final edited versions of all content. They did not send me a zi…

Your story represents the dilemma in the shit internet of 2019 where most people are content slaves locked into plantations. Medium, facebook, twitter, et, al. don't think twice before they ban human minds from expressing themselves for any reason. All these corporations hide behind $600 an hour attorneys and pr management teams. Fuck them all. replacefacebook

Re: Can we all stop using Medium now?

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Post by valtism »

PhasmaFelis wrote: post #85
fwip wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is SWIM?

For some while (maybe still), there was a common belief that talking about your drug experiences online couldn't be used against you in court if you pretended it was someone else. This could be done semi-convincingly if you talked about, say, your "roommate" using drugs, but pretty quickly people started saying shit like "my cat" or "someone who isn't me" and, finally, abbreviated that to "SWIM." Like, "SWIM wants to…

It's the same as those who believe that if you ask the person selling you weed if they are police, they are under obligation by law to tell you so.

They are not.

Re: Can we all stop using Medium now?

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Post by john-radio »

Semaphor wrote: post #104
jscholes wrote: post #54

> If you enjoy reading on the web chances are you’ve been forced to login to Medium at some point in the last week. I've never once logged into Medium. I see a "Pardon the Interruption" notice every time I want to read something, but I just hit Escape and move on with my day. If I had to pick a side, I'd probably say avoid Medium. But I don't know under what circumstances it forces you to log in just to read somethin…

> I see a "Pardon the Interruption" notice every time I want to read something https://makemediumreadable.com/ I stopped minding medium (as a reader) since installing that.

I'm glad this exists, and very impressed with how front-and-center their source code is, but I decided a while ago that I'm not installing random add-ons unless I have a very high level of trust in their integrity.

Re: Can we all stop using Medium now?

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Post by ductionist »

dmje wrote: post #98

There's quite a lot of mileage in what this guy says, and the "content behind walled garden" thing pisses us all off (I'm a non-Facebooker for All The Usual Reasons and have the same response whenever I see stuff "published" there). But: noone seems to have mentioned the fact that you can publish on WordPress and use the Medium plugin to copublish to Medium. It deals with the whole canonical content / SEO thing, you…

That’s interesting - does the canonical tag identify the Medium article or the WordPress article as canonical?
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