3 ms·
Totally agree. I now sigh when I see another article on Medium. It's just so damn frustrating - I come to read the article, I don't want be encouraged to share
by apapli 9y ago
Totally agree. I now sigh when I see another article on Medium. It's just so damn frustrating - I come to read the article, I don't want be encouraged to share it before I have even have had the opportunity to read the first paragraph.
And don't get me started on the irrelevancy of needing to download a mobile app purely for the purposes of reading what should be a bog-standard web page.
- tragic 9y agoIt seems to be a holdover from the social media goldrush, where no web app was complete without a way to follow people and so on. Thus you 'need' the app to get push notifications about the latest scribblings of your network. Of course, you don't really, because you can just as well follow the same people on Twitter or whatever. Most traditional media orgs don't even have that excuse, of course, and are merely trying to cajole you into reading the stuff in a place where you can't turn off the ads.