[mcmire]

I don't get the "Beautiful Stories" section. All of the articles look pretty much the same. Same full-width image peekaboo parallax banner thingy at the top, same font, same look.

This article (https://medium.com/beautiful-stories/66e87553d22c) is a hodge-podge of design decisions. The way images are displayed is a mess: some images float next to text, some float next to text with a caption next to them, some images are centered, some images have quotations in them. To divide sections of text, sometimes there are hr's, sometimes there's a single line with a little loopy thing, sometimes there are parallaxy headers.

Medium may be easy to use but if people think they can click a few buttons and pop out a "beautiful story" they are mistaken.

Call me an old-timer but I would rather just read text without a bunch of stuff in my way.

[kylebragger]

If you're looking for something more photo-driven, I'm working on a thing called Exposure: https://exposure.so/invite/hn (opening this week but we'll invite folks from that link ASAP)

[hamxiaoz]

Looks awesome. Already signed up. Can I link to pictures hosted somewhere else or everything is hosted on your platform?

[kylebragger]

sweet - for an account or invite? if the latter, email me (address above in this thread)

right now photos are hosted by us. haven't considered linking to photos elsewhere yet, mainly since we need to run them thru a few processing steps.

[cwe]

If I've already requested access, will that form help me get in sooner?

[kylebragger]

email me - kyle at elepath . com

[cwe]

Thanks, but I just got the invitation anyways. Excited to try it out!