The making of Medium.com • Hacker News Board

Re: The making of Medium.com

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Post by msglenn » Thu, May 30, 2013, 11:28 PM UTC

benjamincburns wrote: post #10

ValentineC wrote: post #8

Loved the article, not a fan of the 2.4MB video of hands typing on an Apple keyboard [1] I was forced to download. I'm just glad I wasn't on a mobile connection (tethered or otherwise) with a bandwidth cap. I searched for methods to disable MP4 video downloading on both Chrome and Firefox, but they don't appear to work (for Firefox, it was about setting media.autoplay.enabled to false). If anyone knows how I would be…

Not to mention that on a 13" rMBP it pushes the title below the fold. Doesn't give me a lot of confidence to try their "distraction free" writing interface...

Which is sad, because I've found Medium to be a terrific blogging tool for people who don't want to be full time bloggers.

The interface is really very easy to use, with the only annoying thing being the difficulty in browsing Collections when deciding which one to post your work in.

Re: The making of Medium.com

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Post by call » Thu, May 30, 2013, 11:34 PM UTC

ValentineC wrote: post #8

Loved the article, not a fan of the 2.4MB video of hands typing on an Apple keyboard [1] I was forced to download. I'm just glad I wasn't on a mobile connection (tethered or otherwise) with a bandwidth cap. I searched for methods to disable MP4 video downloading on both Chrome and Firefox, but they don't appear to work (for Firefox, it was about setting media.autoplay.enabled to false). If anyone knows how I would be…

The whole damn page is 13 MB. It took over a minute to load on my 1.5mbps bandwidth-capped WiMax connection. The tab in Chrome is using over 200MB of memory on my Mac. With chrome using the maximum possible screen real estate, I can't even read the title on my 1440x900 mbp. http://cl.ly/PK8o

A+

Re: The making of Medium.com

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Post by stephengillie » Fri, May 31, 2013, 12:07 AM UTC

cmelbye wrote: post #9

Wow, great article but terribly designed website. Really slow scrolling, confusing layout, not sure what I could interact with and what I couldn't. (Some elements used the "pointing hand" cursor yet indicating I could click, yet did nothing when I clicked.)

It's a decent layout if you turn off Javascript.

Re: The making of Medium.com

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Post by stephengillie » Fri, May 31, 2013, 12:12 AM UTC

call wrote: post #12

ValentineC wrote: post #8

Loved the article, not a fan of the 2.4MB video of hands typing on an Apple keyboard [1] I was forced to download. I'm just glad I wasn't on a mobile connection (tethered or otherwise) with a bandwidth cap. I searched for methods to disable MP4 video downloading on both Chrome and Firefox, but they don't appear to work (for Firefox, it was about setting media.autoplay.enabled to false). If anyone knows how I would be…

The whole damn page is 13 MB. It took over a minute to load on my 1.5mbps bandwidth-capped WiMax connection. The tab in Chrome is using over 200MB of memory on my Mac. With chrome using the maximum possible screen real estate, I can't even read the title on my 1440x900 mbp. http://cl.ly/PK8o A+

With Javascript off, the tab in Chrome is only taking ~75 MB on my Lenovo.

Re: The making of Medium.com

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Post by thoughtcriminal » Fri, May 31, 2013, 12:13 AM UTC

I personally won't ever use Medium because it deprives the author of branding and recognition.

Re: The making of Medium.com

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Post by bowerbird » Fri, May 31, 2013, 12:29 AM UTC

i read this article back when it was first released, but my memory is that the takeaway message was that if you've got a lot of money to spend on designers, designers will be quite happy to take it from you. :+)

-bowerbird

Re: The making of Medium.com

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Post by wiremine » Fri, May 31, 2013, 12:35 AM UTC

cmelbye wrote: post #9

Wow, great article but terribly designed website. Really slow scrolling, confusing layout, not sure what I could interact with and what I couldn't. (Some elements used the "pointing hand" cursor yet indicating I could click, yet did nothing when I clicked.)

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

Re: The making of Medium.com

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Post by yesimahuman » Fri, May 31, 2013, 1:26 AM UTC

ValentineC wrote: post #8

Loved the article, not a fan of the 2.4MB video of hands typing on an Apple keyboard [1] I was forced to download. I'm just glad I wasn't on a mobile connection (tethered or otherwise) with a bandwidth cap. I searched for methods to disable MP4 video downloading on both Chrome and Firefox, but they don't appear to work (for Firefox, it was about setting media.autoplay.enabled to false). If anyone knows how I would be…

2.4 MB for a video that is part of what was clearly a designed interactive experience for desktop/laptop doesn't seem like any kind of big deal.

Re: The making of Medium.com

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Post by barretts » Fri, May 31, 2013, 1:28 AM UTC

thoughtcriminal wrote: post #15

I personally won't ever use Medium because it deprives the author of branding and recognition.

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.

Re: The making of Medium.com

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Post by intropic » Fri, May 31, 2013, 1:36 AM UTC

thoughtcriminal wrote: post #15

I personally won't ever use Medium because it deprives the author of branding and recognition.

I wonder what the reasoning was behind branding the author in the URL path as opposed to as a subdomain. It seems like a very strange approach to take from guys who have done the latter before.

If nothing else it sure makes posts from Medium very annoying on HN because I can't actually tell which blogger's post I'm going to read until I click the link (primarily read on iPad so no hovering).