Yep, nailed it. For those of us who still read despite all that, here's the browser extension you've been looking for (Make Medium Readable Again): https://github.com/thebaer/MMRA
HEH - gonna steal this one and reuse it over and over as if I were the clever one who came up with it around the water cooler. Like the small medium at large
What do you feel about custom "publications" that happen to use Medium? For example, hackernoon.com and codeburst.io are pretty popular around here and they just take Medium articles they find and add them to their publication.
For me, the Medium name is hurting the credibility with anyone who would publish there. I'm more likely to give my attention to someone with a static site, even if it is a boring old template. (I'm thinking of doing the same for myself).
As for Hackernoon I would be more likely to read their content off-medium. However, I do feel like I see them too often on HN, which means I now actively filter them out when deciding what to read. They are a little overexposed here.
Their insistence on taking up an outsized proportion of screen real estate for a header and footer promoting medium.com is beyond obnoxious.
A platform for consuming content should not distract the reader from concentrating that content.
Also if I like a blog I'll bookmark it and check back. I do not need to sign up to "never miss a story from _____."