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Can we all stop using Medium now?

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Re: Can we all stop using Medium now?

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Post by skrowl »

Hackbraten wrote: post #35

Please re-enable the `-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch;` CSS style for your content. The article is a pain to read on Mobile Safari because bouncy/rubber-band scrolling is disabled.

Mobile Safari is the new IE6.

Hopefully that class-action against Apple for the app store monopoly bears fruit (pun fully intended) so some alternative browsers can be installed on iOS (via Amazon app store or something similar to f-droid).

Note for those new to the party "Chrome" and "Firefox" on iOS are just skins on top of Safari, iOS rules require you to just use Safari if your app browses web. See 2.5.6 here if you don't believe me - https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#sof...

Re: Can we all stop using Medium now?

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Post by notatoad »

pokstad wrote: post #45
Hackbraten wrote: post #35

Please re-enable the `-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch;` CSS style for your content. The article is a pain to read on Mobile Safari because bouncy/rubber-band scrolling is disabled.

Goes without saying, the consistent Medium experience is a good reason why we keep using it. Self made blogs like this that do annoying things that take away from content are foot guns.

The OP's blog still does less annoying stuff than medium does

Re: Can we all stop using Medium now?

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Post by ozzmotik »

55555 wrote: post #65

I was writing on Medium because it ranks well in Google. I wrote nearly a dozen really great articles on primarily health and dietary supplement topics. After 2 months they started to rank well and were getting daily readers, as the content was really great. Then I wrote an article on a 'research chemical' and they banned my account overnight. I lost the final edited versions of all content. They did not send me a zi…

just out of curiosity, which chemical did you write about?

Re: Can we all stop using Medium now?

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Post by ex3ndr »

NightlyDev wrote: post #51
Hackbraten wrote: post #35

Please re-enable the `-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch;` CSS style for your content. The article is a pain to read on Mobile Safari because bouncy/rubber-band scrolling is disabled.

That feature has serious bugs on iOS, and that's probably why it's not the default as Apple can't get it to be stable. Don't ask him to add it, ask Apple, it's their fault. It's not a production feature. And since it's Apple, you can't just use another browser as it's all the same crap on iOS. You're stuck with something worse than the 2019 equivalent of IE6. iOS is a joke when it comes to web browsing.

Same flag is required for Chrome.

Re: Can we all stop using Medium now?

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Post by xkcd-sucks »

55555 wrote: post #65

I was writing on Medium because it ranks well in Google. I wrote nearly a dozen really great articles on primarily health and dietary supplement topics. After 2 months they started to rank well and were getting daily readers, as the content was really great. Then I wrote an article on a 'research chemical' and they banned my account overnight. I lost the final edited versions of all content. They did not send me a zi…

Haha you now know how they maintain their SEO -- by purging the politically incorrect stuff.

BTW only druggies say "research chemicals", academic researchers just use "drugs"/"compounds" or maybe "fine organics" or the actual name of whatever it is. "Research chemicals" is basically "SWIM" in terms of being a "druggie heuristic"

Re: Can we all stop using Medium now?

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Post by xkcd-sucks »

joegahona wrote: post #31
regnerba wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The struggle for me in understanding why people use Medium is that I am a reader of Medium articles, but I only find them when posted on Reddit, HackerNews, or when they come up on a Google Search. So as far as I can tell it wouldn't matter if it was posted on Medium or a personal blog on their own site.

Medium has a built-in audience so the number of people who will see a particular post and share it on Reddit, HackerNews, etc., is higher than if you just host it on Wordpress and do all the marketing yourself.

Have you ever met someone who navigaed to medium.com to fin articles, or is this a matter of faith?

Re: Can we all stop using Medium now?

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Post by fwip »

xkcd-sucks wrote: post #76
55555 wrote: post #65

I was writing on Medium because it ranks well in Google. I wrote nearly a dozen really great articles on primarily health and dietary supplement topics. After 2 months they started to rank well and were getting daily readers, as the content was really great. Then I wrote an article on a 'research chemical' and they banned my account overnight. I lost the final edited versions of all content. They did not send me a zi…

Haha you now know how they maintain their SEO -- by purging the politically incorrect stuff. BTW only druggies say "research chemicals", academic researchers just use "drugs"/"compounds" or maybe "fine organics" or the actual name of whatever it is. "Research chemicals" is basically "SWIM" in terms of being a "druggie heuristic"

What is SWIM?

Re: Can we all stop using Medium now?

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Post by [deleted] »

dickeytk wrote: post #36
DoctorOW wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The partner program isn't on by default, the paywall is. You do not need to be part of the partner program for the paywall. Source: https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/360018834314-Stori...

What on earth are you talking about? From the link you posted: > Stories become eligible to be part of the metered paywall if the writer selects that option in each story’s distribution setting. Medium will never meter a story without the writer’s permission. > During the publish flow, you have the opportunity to check the box to be eligible for curation review and distribution across Medium. Checking this box means…

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