Ahhh, it's a stealthy attempt to build a new Google Wave: (logo on their site) https://d233eq3e3p3cv0.cloudfront.net/fit/t/45/45/0*ojw7_5O9...
The Obvious Corp's preview of Medium
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#62Both Branch and Medium seems pretty exciting. I can now see why I can live with Twitter as a one-way link sharing media company. However, I can only wish that Branch would let people be in control of the environment they host for authentic conversation, i.e, they should start with tackling the issues of noise, spammers, trolls etc. Make things authentic for people so they feel trust towards conversing online.
Medium seems little confusing at first but as a new publishing platform (over Wordpress and the rest of the old not-so-evolving-anymore), I look forward to participating.
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I totally agree about the URLs. We decided not to launch with human readable URLs since we didn't want to deal with the namespacing issues right away. i.e. /user/post vs /collection/post vs just /post. I'm a huge fan of URLs as part of the interface, so I'm sure its something we'll implement.
Just seconding Dan's answer here, I'm a big fan of human readable URLs as well. They are on our roadmap but we didn't include them in this initial release for reasons including but limited to the namespace issues Dan mentioned. As Ev said in his post this release is a preview and we're not done by any stretch of the imagination.
Glad to hear it! Like I said, just a small thing. I'm really excited to see where you guys go with the platform.
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#64Looks interesting - to me it seems similar in a lot of ways to svbtle, at least as far as what they are trying to do. Its a small thing, but I'm somewhat turned off by the urls - urls like https://medium.com/c/e2e5df2e6649 feel like something out of an early 2000's CMS...
I totally agree about the URLs. We decided not to launch with human readable URLs since we didn't want to deal with the namespacing issues right away. i.e. /user/post vs /collection/post vs just /post. I'm a huge fan of URLs as part of the interface, so I'm sure its something we'll implement.
Understandable. Any idea when you'll be opening up the platform beyond family and friends by the way?
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I'd love to check this out. Are details available? Screen shots?
I suppose you can see it at https://medium.com/
Well that's where I originally looked. The commenter mentioned the composing experience, but I didn't find any details. If you coud point me to a UI demo or info, I'd appreciate it. I must be missing something. Thanks.
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I suppose you can see it at https://medium.com/
Well that's where I originally looked. The commenter mentioned the composing experience, but I didn't find any details. If you coud point me to a UI demo or info, I'd appreciate it. I must be missing something. Thanks.
If you aren't signed in (or in browser private mode), and visit https://medium.com, you should see this http://cl.ly/image/3z293w0b2V0j. I don't have write access to the service either, but my guess is that's how it looks like? You can actually type, as well as replace the photo in that page. But you can't save.
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Well that's where I originally looked. The commenter mentioned the composing experience, but I didn't find any details. If you coud point me to a UI demo or info, I'd appreciate it. I must be missing something. Thanks.
If you aren't signed in (or in browser private mode), and visit https://medium.com , you should see this http://cl.ly/image/3z293w0b2V0j . I don't have write access to the service either, but my guess is that's how it looks like? You can actually type, as well as replace the photo in that page. But you can't save.
Thanks. Now see it. I must have been expecting something different. Now it seems pretty obvious to me.