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I've never seen his blog or a crow cartoon before. But I knew when I clicked that since it was hosted on medium.com, it was going to be at least mildly interest
by degenerate 11y ago
I've never seen his blog or a crow cartoon before. But I knew when I clicked that since it was hosted on medium.com, it was going to be at least mildly interesting because lots of good articles hosted there get linked on HN. This was the crappiest medium.com blog post I can remember reading this year. He sounds like an angry asshole! How's that for irony. But I'm merely an outsider, so I have no clue if the site is actually going down the shitter. If Medium is indeed swimming in trash, they still have time to fix that, because someone like me doesn't see it yet. So this one angry exit might be a martyr that gets the rest of the community motivated to change the problem, if it exists at all.
- eterm 11y agoYou've had your medium experience curated by HN if you're clicking through from here. There will be others who are getting their medium experience curated through reddit, tumblr, facebook, other forums etc. And HN doesn't tend to go in for "outrage linking", elsewhere people will link to blogs for the sake of "look how awful this opinion is" which may also affect their perception of the platform. Medium is an open blogging platform, it seems unfair to blame an open platform for the authors on it, but part of the problem here is that medium used to be invite only, so perhaps people are still judging it based on the authors on there, this article's author for one.
- degenerate 11y agoI thought it was still invite only! You're right, I only access articles on there from HN. If they indeed are open-access like facebook now, I can completely see it being a festering cesspool of crap articles. Good riddance.