The making of Medium.com • Hacker News Board

Re: The making of Medium.com

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Post by xSwag » Fri, May 31, 2013, 9:02 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…

Install Ad-block and add custom regex blocking all .mp4 files? I'd give you an example but I'm on my mobile right now

Re: The making of Medium.com

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Post by alberth » Fri, May 31, 2013, 10:12 PM 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.)

Reading the site on my smartphone, it was excellent.

Reading the site on my laptop, it was horrible.

That could explain the mixed responses to the UI of the site.

Re: The making of Medium.com

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Post by mnicole » Sat, Jun 01, 2013, 12:21 AM UTC

colmvp wrote: post #31

markdown wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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…

I viewed the site on in Chrome on a rMBP and it looked and loaded just as poorly. There's no excuse for having basic fallbacks or a preloading mechanism.

Re: The making of Medium.com

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Post by dreamdu5t » Sat, Jun 01, 2013, 12:39 AM UTC

ianstormtaylor wrote: post #33

markdown wrote: post #27

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Medium is so simple it would be a good candidate for beginner web tutorial examples: Build a Medium clone in Rails in 4hours. 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".

"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…

Dumb? Take away all the Silicon Valley celebrities and then show me how popular Medium is.