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Re: Medium 1.0

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post #8

what browsers are people who can't navigate the page with page up/down / arrow keys / space? I'm running firefox and can do so without issue.

Chrome Version 31.0.1650.57, internet explorer 10 and Firefox 25.01 on Windows 7 do not support keyboard navigation.

It also fails to work on a Samsung Chromebook.

What version of firefox and os are you using?

Re: Medium 1.0

#12
post #8

what browsers are people who can't navigate the page with page up/down / arrow keys / space? I'm running firefox and can do so without issue.

It seems to be hit or miss for me; I could move the page around just fine but at some point I couldn't. Not sure what triggered that broke it.

Re: Medium 1.0

#13
I see that they still haven't solved the lag issue where it takes content some time to actually load. Silly bug considering how basic and small the content is.

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#14
post #3

Page down, space, down arrow: nothing can move the screen! Took me a good 15 seconds...

Vimium works! It's most likely an intentional challenge to make you stop using the arrow keys and start embracing HJKL.

Re: Medium 1.0

#15
I don't get the "Beautiful Stories" section. All of the articles look pretty much the same. Same full-width image peekaboo parallax banner thingy at the top, same font, same look.

This article (https://medium.com/beautiful-stories/66e87553d22c) is a hodge-podge of design decisions. The way images are displayed is a mess: some images float next to text, some float next to text with a caption next to them, some images are centered, some images have quotations in them. To divide sections of text, sometimes there are hr's, sometimes there's a single line with a little loopy thing, sometimes there are parallaxy headers.

Medium may be easy to use but if people think they can click a few buttons and pop out a "beautiful story" they are mistaken.

Call me an old-timer but I would rather just read text without a bunch of stuff in my way.

Re: Medium 1.0

#16
post #8

what browsers are people who can't navigate the page with page up/down / arrow keys / space? I'm running firefox and can do so without issue.

It also works fine for me, Firefox 26 beta on Windows 8.1.

Re: Medium 1.0

#19

I see that they still haven't solved the lag issue where it takes content some time to actually load. Silly bug considering how basic and small the content is.

This is likely related to typekit loading. Do you block referrers?

Re: Medium 1.0

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post #8

what browsers are people who can't navigate the page with page up/down / arrow keys / space? I'm running firefox and can do so without issue.

We have a fix for Chrome coming soon, something we overlooked in a last minute change.
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