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Remember the good old days, when Medium prided itself on being beautiful and readable?

• bhrgunatha 9y ago
  Website readability in general has degraded seriously in recent years. Flat buttons/links that can't be discerned as clickable, low contrast text, the resurgence of mystery meat navigation and plenty more annoyances I don't even remember. Luckily we have better tools these days to combat them. The fact that firefox has a built in reader mode is indicative of how user hostile web readability is these days.
• CM30 9y ago
  Yep. That seems to be a trend with user content driven sites. They start off promising a clean, minimalistic look (like Medium, Imgur, Reddit, etc) and then gradually end up cluttering their site with more and more useless trinkets. Indeed, it's so bad for image sharing sites that they seem to get replaced every year or two when the last one starts becoming more and more hostile towards their users' experience.
  • irq-1 9y ago
    "Brands" generally follow the same pattern: grow the base, then cheapen the products to increase profits. Eventually the Brand will be replaced with the next big thing, or the Brand will survive long enough to provide a consistent product that people accept.
• shopkins 9y ago
  Man, those were the days. Though I guess it's managed to keep them at the top, perched on top of people who still think it's The Best Place to Host Your Content™
  • intoverflow2 9y ago
    Wondering if the Medium faithful realise the lack of respect Medium has for their writing when you're not logged in [0]. [0] https://d2w9rnfcy7mm78.cloudfront.net/1142179/large_419d82d232ff2cd5e0f8155396bd7dc2.png https://d2w9rnfcy7mm78.cloudfront.net/1142179/large_419d82d2...