[misiti3780]

I think mediums UI is nice, but as far as i can tell, you cant include code snippets so its almost useless for blogging about programming - until the change that, I am going to continue to use jekyll.

[goronbjorn]

They do support code blocks: https://medium.com/help-center/128f049a7ad (just search the page for "Code block")

[nilkn]

It's pretty limited (e.g., no syntax highlighting) and if you're not careful it will do things like change double quotes (U+0022) to curly quotes (e.g., U+201C and U+201D).

[untog]

I don't think programmers (writing about code) are Medium's main target market.

[misiti3780]

i understand that, but ostracizing a group of people that are probably some of their core users right now (tech community) seems stupid - adding the feature would be very easy

[droob]

You are a programmer that just said "adding the feature would be very easy."

[eropple]

Maybe it's "should be easy" rather than "would be easy", but there's probably something wrong if it's not, yeah? Pretty much every other blogging engine does this and without a ton of effort. Code highlighting libraries exist in pretty much every web language (is there a serious one that doesn't have a Pygments equivalent?). It's just markup.

[kevando]

Jokes for the 1%

[pseut]

"ostracizing" is a pretty extreme way of putting it.

[dopamean]

"Ostracizing" is a pretty strong word here.

[yen223]

"It's like apartheid, but with programmers."

[spindritf]

Isn't https://coderwall.com/ the medium's counterpart for programmers? I don't use either, just throwing it out there.

[joeyyang]

They do support code blocks (cmd-6), but unfortunately, they're not styled in any other way (syntax highlighting, etc.) which makes code blocks somewhat unpleasant to read.