Blocked reading the article because medium wants me to sign in. Is Medium now forcing people to create accounts to read posts or is it just a setting that this subdomain turned on?
Medium is quickly going down the Quora path for me. The content quality is becoming poorer as more and more people use it as a place to dump their zero-traffic blog posts. The aggressive content gating and pop-ups are another Quora-esque introduction. Just a case of being blinded by metrics. Adding an aggressive sign-up form might get you more emails and sign-ups, but it will also annoy away better quality users.
WikiHow’s art is made by a network of freelancers, mostly in the Philippines
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It's hilarious. I've just learned a bit of Cyrillic during holidays, and even I can hardly stop reading it as "OpeZego" and so on. It must be almost unreadable for people from the many countries with a Cyrillic alphabet.
You can't imagine how often it happens when someone is trying to appear "Russian" or just trying to be fancy. As a native speaker, you can't help but keep reading it in Cyrillic, and the result is completely garbled.
The hall of fame includes "Tetyais" and "Boyadt".
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#83Re: WikiHow’s art is made by a network of freelancers, mostly in the Philippines
#84Man, what is that headline font?
It's hilarious. I've just learned a bit of Cyrillic during holidays, and even I can hardly stop reading it as "OpeZego" and so on. It must be almost unreadable for people from the many countries with a Cyrillic alphabet.
Well, it's not unreadable at all, though a bit ambiguous, for me. I think people who's native languages only have Cyrillic letters don't struggle with it as much as some people who's languages have two official alphabets - i.e. my native Serbian, which has Cyrillic and Latin alphabets, that are equally taugh in schools, accepted by the government and un-prejudiced (well, other than extreme right people who force Cyrillic as the only "true" alphabet [sigh]).
However, it's extremely rare to see Cyrillic mixed with Latin letters in a word or sentence and have it intentionally mean both, so my mind doesn't interpret it like that. That's why P is not R to me or C is not S...
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#85Blocked reading the article because medium wants me to sign in. Is Medium now forcing people to create accounts to read posts or is it just a setting that this subdomain turned on?
At least for me, there's an "X" in the upper-right corner that dismisses the popup. I can also click anywhere outside the popup to dismiss it. Is that not the case for you?
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#86Wikihow is gold mine of often hilariously bizarre tracings of stock or staged photos.
What surprises me is that there is no Wikihow filter for photoshop and instagram. So consider this my free gift to any enterprising HN reader who wants to make a small fortune with a wikihowification mobile app.
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#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
How are you supposed to read anything if _mediums_ don't exist? That's the value Medium provides to readers, and clearly Medium has a lot of reach, flawed their platform may be. It's not mind-blowing, but there it is.
> How are you supposed to read anything if _mediums_ don't exist? Author's own blog or site. If they do not want to do it that's fine. They can chose Medium I can chose to not read.
You do realize that an author's own blog or site is hosted on a platform of some kind, right? Authors wouldn't be choosing Medium over setting up a Wordpress instance on HostGator if it wasn't easier and didn't get them readers.
You can choose to not read Medium articles, but authors are using it for a reason.
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah wikihow is improving the internet with much needed articles like "How to be Random" https://www.wikihow.com/Be-Random
Fantastic that you don't need the article. I'm sure you also don't really need this article: https://www.wikihow.com/Tie-Your-Shoes Have you considered that there might be people who would find that article on "being random" interesting or helpful? Consider just for a moment, the perspective of someone who isn't what we'd call "neuro-typical" - someone with an ASD, for example. Such an article might be incredibly use…
I have ASD and while I've never had any reason to visit "How to Be Random", I've had plenty of use for similar articles on wikiHow. This even extends beyond the social arena one might imagine I'd need help with. Other topics people with developmental disorders might face difficulties with are exactly the topics handled by wikiHow. Washing clothes, for instance. While saying the wikiHow has been formative of me would probably be over the top, it has guided me when I didn't have the mental capacity to seek help elsewhere.
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
Medium is quickly going down the Quora path for me. The content quality is becoming poorer as more and more people use it as a place to dump their zero-traffic blog posts. The aggressive content gating and pop-ups are another Quora-esque introduction. Just a case of being blinded by metrics. Adding an aggressive sign-up form might get you more emails and sign-ups, but it will also annoy away better quality users.
It is worse than Quora now because Medium not only requires sign-ins bit asks for subscription to read.
It is also worse than quora because quora can be blocked easily in search results since it is one domain. People use medium with their own domains too, which makes it hard to block entirely.
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#90Blocked reading the article because medium wants me to sign in. Is Medium now forcing people to create accounts to read posts or is it just a setting that this subdomain turned on?
The Bypass Paywalls extension allows you to get around the sign in requirement on Medium: