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Pretty infantile and obnoxious post, though I agree with the main point - the content you see on Medium's front page is low quality. That happens because Mediu
by rayalez 11y ago
Pretty infantile and obnoxious post, though I agree with the main point - the content you see on Medium's front page is low quality.
That happens because Medium has a bad discovery system - which is a huge bummer, because they have really nailed everything else.
The solution is simple - just allow users to control which content they read, simply by copying what reddit has already figured out how to do. Allow people to follow tags and browse top articles of the week/month/year, and have a separate stream where I can see posts from the people I follow.
Instead, they have an opaque algorithm, and my front page has a bunch of seemingly random posts I would never choose to see.