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Re: Show HN: Chrome extension that hides Medium.com articles on HN and DN

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Out of curiosity, why do some people want to hide Medium articles?

Its not the articles, its the platform (and its aesthetics). Medium is not meant for things like code samples and shoehorning them in leads to these fullwidth blocks which are hard to read. The fullwidth images and embeds are also somewhat annoying. There are better places to reproduce your content edit, fixing a typo

so you would rather hide the "content" because you dont like how it's presented?

Re: Show HN: Chrome extension that hides Medium.com articles on HN and DN

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post #11

I accidentally have something similar: since I have ghostery on and it blokes some adobe typekit JS, medium.com articles are all blank except for the top image for me.

At first I thought this is an oversight on their part for not providing a web safe font fallback, but they do. Maybe it's because when ghostery blocks the url, so the browser thinks the font exists and doesn't fall back to the next one somehow.

I have no idea, it's somewhat intermittent. Anyway it's very annoying and it's making me avoid medium somehow.

Re: Show HN: Chrome extension that hides Medium.com articles on HN and DN

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post #21
post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Its not the articles, its the platform (and its aesthetics). Medium is not meant for things like code samples and shoehorning them in leads to these fullwidth blocks which are hard to read. The fullwidth images and embeds are also somewhat annoying. There are better places to reproduce your content edit, fixing a typo

so you would rather hide the "content" because you dont like how it's presented?

Why do you care what other people are hiding?

Re: Show HN: Chrome extension that hides Medium.com articles on HN and DN

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post #28
post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

so you would rather hide the "content" because you dont like how it's presented?

Why do you care what other people are hiding?

Because it's dumb and I don't like dumb things and it's frustrating that people spend their time on dumb things when there are so many non-dumb things that they could do instead. Clutters up HN & the Chrome Store and reinforces dumb thinking.
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