Every year around Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter we have an article trending on HN explaining how rubbish Medium is.
Yes we know it.
No need to tell us.
Just stop using it.
Fuck Medium
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#12This made me wonder 'Hey, could I just block Quora and Medium from my Google results altogether?'
Yep! There's an extension. No more towardsdatascience to trawl through, hooray!
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublacklist/pncfbmi...
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#13I even signed up for a Medium account, figuring alright, they want some personal info in exchange for content. So now I get a daily digest of Medium articles - most of which I can't read because it requires "premium", i.e. paid, membership. Talk about a bait and switch! I've gotten to the point now where if I see an article is posted on Medium then I won't read it. It's better for my blood pressure that way.
edit: s/ready/read/
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#14A while back I wrote to HN and asked them to add a domain-filter feature: a user-curated blacklist of domains whose articles the user doesn't wish to see. The list could be added to the HN user profile. Medium.com would be at the top of my list.
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#15I agree wholeheartedly with the author. Not a lot of things irk me more than the Medium era of blogging. Aside from the shady practice of Medium itself, I feel like with it came the meme-infused blogs, which I personally dislike a lot. I don't mind diagrams, of course, but I feel like the memes are to pander to the "kids" of today (I'm not that old, but memes weren't until I was 21).
My pet peeve with Medium is how they had zero profile customization options when they started off. No custom themes or design, the focus was (allegedly) on the content, not its presentation.
Last time I checked, they now let you personalize your profile and its design and include a custom username.medium.com URL for your profile. They became the very thing they said they weren't.
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#16I certainly like the idea of Medium. But read time is really a poor way to rate and pay writers. It incentives poor content. I would think a system based on up votes and bookmark saves would be much better.
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#17Every year around Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter we have an article trending on HN explaining how rubbish Medium is. Yes we know it. No need to tell us. Just stop using it.
And every quarter HN gets new users, and medium gets linked and people think its a good idea; there really isnt much of a living memory in a medium such as this.
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#18This made me wonder 'Hey, could I just block Quora and Medium from my Google results altogether?' Yep! There's an extension. No more towardsdatascience to trawl through, hooray! https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublacklist/pncfbmi...
Pintrest images from search too. There's an extension for that as well, but in the interest of having fewer extensions you can just search with `-site:pinterest.*`
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#19Maybe I'm just living in 2008, but... what's wrong with just self-hosting a simple blog? Wordpress gets a lot of well-deserved hate (especially regarding feature bloat and security), but it's also very simple to spin up. A VPS is a couple bucks a month, and many hosts have a preconfigured ready-to-rock Wordpress image for less technical users.
It's obviously not the best solution if you want to monetize, but there are other options for that, like Ghost. But I'd be curious as to the fraction of Medium writers that actually turn out more than beer money from their articles.
It strikes me that a lot of Medium content is something that would have gone on a small personal blog in the past, rather than the premium content worth paying for that Medium seems to be aiming for.
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#20Don't block cookies or use incognito mode. Do everyone a favor and archive the article with archive.is