On Medium as a platform, somehow, to me it always seemed like a place for pompous people to write long articles ("Hey, look! I'm published on Medium!"). But lik

On Medium as a platform, somehow, to me it always seemed like a place for pompous people to write long articles ("Hey, look! I'm published on Medium!"). But like the rest of the web, there were many time wasters among the few gems. I did like the typography and readability initially (and still do), but some of its design decisions, like blurred images coming into focus on scrolling, almost seizure inducing flashing GIFs and others really annoyed me a lot and put me off from visiting Medium links. Lastly, it also bothered me that it could become one more large scale platform like Blogger or WordPress, concentrating content into one platform (many people wrote directly on and for medium.com, while a few used it with custom domains).