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Re: The making of Medium.com

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Post by swombat »

markdown wrote: post #32
colmvp wrote: post #31

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Teehan + Lax is an interactive design agency that does work for multinational corporations. Their site is obviously catered towards clients with big wallets or potential hires. Complaining about bandwidth would make a lot of sense if we were talking about a site catered towards the majority of internet users, like an Amazon, Craigslist, or Reddit. It's like complaining that high end fashion websites don't cater to In…

Have you tried opening the page on a device you consider as worthy of clients with big wallets?.. say, an iPhone, iPad, or top-of-the-line Android? It completely crashed Chrome on my iPad 3. Progressive enhancement is a cornerstone of good web design. There is no excuse for this.

It worked fine on Safari on my iPhone 4S on 3G...

Re: The making of Medium.com

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Post by robotmay »

saeidm wrote: post #24

I still like http://throwww.com better. I'm only saying that cause I built Throwww, though.

I had almost this exact same idea last year (a one-off blogging platform). It wouldn't have looked anywhere near this nice though, good work :)

Re: The making of Medium.com

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Post by robryan »

swombat wrote: post #41
markdown wrote: post #32

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Have you tried opening the page on a device you consider as worthy of clients with big wallets?.. say, an iPhone, iPad, or top-of-the-line Android? It completely crashed Chrome on my iPad 3. Progressive enhancement is a cornerstone of good web design. There is no excuse for this.

It worked fine on Safari on my iPhone 4S on 3G...

Yeah, worked fine on iPhone 5.

Re: The making of Medium.com

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Post by robryan »

thoughtcriminal wrote: post #21
barretts wrote: post #19

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Why, simply because it's hosted on a different domain? It seems to help people reach an audience wider than they would otherwise, which is anything but bad for branding.

A wider reach isn't a given, especially for someone who writes well and has basic marketing skills. Besides, on the rare occasion I have read an article on Medium (I don't anymore) I could never remember the author. It's all just the faceless Borg. For anyone thinking of using Medium, don't do it. It's like giving your work away for free, and for no recognition.

Disagree, at least at this stage. Medium seems to be low enough volume and high enough quality that it probably beats a no name blog right now.

Not sure how they will handle open publishing.

Re: The making of Medium.com

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Post by robryan »

markdown wrote: post #35
ianstormtaylor wrote: post #33

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"Medium isn't a big thing because it's special in any way, it's a big thing because it was made by "web celebrities"." This is dumb to the point of annoying. Did you read the article at all? Lots of great design thinking went into Medium. I'm constantly finding new features on Medium that are very well thought out. Yes they have a huge problem of not letting the authors own their own work, which is why I will never u…

> let's not say nothing is special about it either. Now you're putting words in my mouth. I didn't say that. Do you think great writers all over the world would happily give me their content for free if I designed something better than Medium?

Sure, if you generate the same amount of traffic.

Re: The making of Medium.com

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Post by dasil003 »

markdown wrote: post #28
wiremine wrote: post #17

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I had the completely opposite reaction: I thought it the layout was excellent. (Although I agree the reaction on the mouse over was confusing).

The page is beautiful, but is designed for a very narrow range of computing devices. 28MB will cost you a fortune on 3g if you don't have a good plan, and the page will be freeze most devices and be unusable on most of the rest. Might as well have used Flash.

Works perfectly on my 16GB rMBP with Thunderbolt Ethernet to 100Mbps fibre in central London. Sheesh, what is everyone complaining about.

Re: The making of Medium.com

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Post by dasil003 »

dontAgree wrote: post #36
ianstormtaylor wrote: post #33

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"Medium isn't a big thing because it's special in any way, it's a big thing because it was made by "web celebrities"." This is dumb to the point of annoying. Did you read the article at all? Lots of great design thinking went into Medium. I'm constantly finding new features on Medium that are very well thought out. Yes they have a huge problem of not letting the authors own their own work, which is why I will never u…

> Lots of great design thinking went into Medium. Blah blah blah. Yeah right. The design is a clone of svbtle. Lots of ripping off and self promotion went into Medium.

That's silly. Medium is another well-executed minimalist design like Svbtle. Neither one of them is particularly ground-breaking, but they are both better executed than 95% of similar web designs. I say this despite the fact that I have always had something of a visceral distaste for blog networks.
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