[CobrastanJorji]

Can I say how much I hate Medium these days? Remember when it didn't suck and was doing such a good job of not sucking that all sorts of very serious people created Medium accounts to start blogging? What the hell happened, Medium?

I started reading this story, got about halfway down, and the story stopped and I got this big centered H2 reading "Create an account to read the full story."

Fine, I want to read the rest. I create an account. I go back to the story. Now the story still stops at the same place but the big centered H2 has changed to "Jorgi, read this story from Tom Smykowski — and all the best stories on Medium" and there's an "Upgrade" button. That was not our deal, Medium! You said I could create an account to read the full story.

So I click the button and it takes me to the signup page, of course on the "pay annually tab," with a small white button on a white background that reads 'monthly' for other options. Fuck you, Medium.

[musicale]

More articles hosted on Medium means more time I save by never reading them.

[schoenobates]

I now use archive.ph to read these types of article now. Medium as a platform is awful and the constant nag to signup just puts me off so much.

https://archive.ph/fh12P

[tomaszs]

So you're using a page that stole my article. Thank you

[CobrastanJorji]

Ooo, nice, thanks!

[IshKebab]

They needed to make a profit.

[tomaszs]

The article is available for free. Just use the link at the top. It's not paywalled

[CobrastanJorji]

My friend, this is a paywall: https://imgur.com/a/8t36SKt

[zeppelin101]

This is why you should get various browser extensions that cut through this nonsense.

[frfl]

There's not much good content on medium anyway. Most of it is shallow and lacks any real subsistence. The rare useful post is out numbered 10-to-1 or even 100-to-1 or more by shallow blog spam and other noise.

I can only imagine substack will end up the same in a few years time. These platforms get all hyped up and end up drowned in spam and low quality stuff when they go mainstream.