[danols]

Is there anyone but me who uses the premium article on medium.com as a filter for what is NOT worth my time?

I believe in the tech space the majority of readers who write in depth worth to read articles are not incentivised by a few dollars kickback from their hard work from medium.com. They often write it for personal profile enhancement or company blog marketing reasons and want to reach maximum audience and will keep it free for all.

The problem nowadays though is that medium.com is often able to trick them by making the article premium through deceptive ui even when that is not their intention. Just look at the googlecloud medium blog and you constantly see premium articles there which seems bizarre.

[jeremyjh]

I use medium.com as a filter in general.

[agumonkey]

I use HTTP

[wj]

I haven't subscribed to Medium but there are certainly some articles/guides I have read there over the years that have been helpful.

[WaltPurvis]

> Is there anyone but me who uses the premium article on medium.com as a filter for what is NOT worth my time?

I humbly suggest that your filter might be broken.

After years of being irritated by Medium's pay wall and reflexively clicking away from blockaded articles, I recently decided to pay the $5, because there was some article I really wanted to read (can't even remember what it was), and because I was tired of paying the mental tax of constantly weighing whether to click on a Medium link because I didn't know if the article would be paywalled or not.

I've since read dozens of high-quality, in-depth articles on a variety of technical topics and other areas of interest.

I find it well worth $5/month and I'll probably continue to subscribe.

[danols]

readers-> authors