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Re: Medium bans user for Chrome extension that opened articles in incognito mode

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Medium lived long enough to become the villain. It was honestly quite the heel turn, but they’re all in. As far as I am concerned everyone should just move to substack at this point.

Medium has been the villain for quite some time now.

But not so fast about Substack... they recently started showing modals.

In the end, running a website costs money. What are you going to do.

Re: Medium bans user for Chrome extension that opened articles in incognito mode

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Medium lived long enough to become the villain. It was honestly quite the heel turn, but they’re all in. As far as I am concerned everyone should just move to substack at this point.

Why move from one corporate entity to another? Substack will end up going down the same road in time. Get your own domain, fire up a CMS and start publishing on something you control and own.

Re: Medium bans user for Chrome extension that opened articles in incognito mode

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post #2

Medium lived long enough to become the villain. It was honestly quite the heel turn, but they’re all in. As far as I am concerned everyone should just move to substack at this point.

Medium has been the villain for quite some time now. But not so fast about Substack... they recently started showing modals. In the end, running a website costs money. What are you going to do.

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Re: Medium bans user for Chrome extension that opened articles in incognito mode

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post #3
post #2

Medium lived long enough to become the villain. It was honestly quite the heel turn, but they’re all in. As far as I am concerned everyone should just move to substack at this point.

Medium has been the villain for quite some time now. But not so fast about Substack... they recently started showing modals. In the end, running a website costs money. What are you going to do.

For what it’s worth I find their modals relatively unobtrusive and easily dismissed. It’s not great but like you said, they need to make a living.

Re: Medium bans user for Chrome extension that opened articles in incognito mode

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post #3
post #2

Medium lived long enough to become the villain. It was honestly quite the heel turn, but they’re all in. As far as I am concerned everyone should just move to substack at this point.

Medium has been the villain for quite some time now. But not so fast about Substack... they recently started showing modals. In the end, running a website costs money. What are you going to do.

Switch platforms before investors can make their money back. Everyone wins!

Re: Medium bans user for Chrome extension that opened articles in incognito mode

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Medium lived long enough to become the villain. It was honestly quite the heel turn, but they’re all in. As far as I am concerned everyone should just move to substack at this point.

Why move from one corporate entity to another? Substack will end up going down the same road in time. Get your own domain, fire up a CMS and start publishing on something you control and own.

We really need to move towards self-hosted content, self-hosted social media, etc, instead of surrendering ourselves to arbitrarily-run walled gardens.

Re: Medium bans user for Chrome extension that opened articles in incognito mode

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post #2

Medium lived long enough to become the villain. It was honestly quite the heel turn, but they’re all in. As far as I am concerned everyone should just move to substack at this point.

Medium has been the villain for quite some time now. But not so fast about Substack... they recently started showing modals. In the end, running a website costs money. What are you going to do.

Are the modals opt in or configurable by the author?
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