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> do they know? Maybe > Do they care? Sure, if they know. > Do they read all the articles about how appalling the reading experience on their platform is?
by JustSomeNobody 9y ago
> do they know?
Maybe
> Do they care?
Sure, if they know.
> Do they read all the articles about how appalling the reading experience on their platform is?
Doubtful
>What's going on?
They don't know how to monetize any better than any other web site. They're following what other sites do to try and engage the people who do visit Medium longer. The problem is, what works for sites where the reading experience is secondary doesn't work for a site whose reading experience is primary. Somehow they either don't know that or cannot think of anything better to try.
- true_religion 9y agoThey're probably seeing an uptick in signups, subscriptions, and all the other metrics they care about---so they keep going down the rabbit hole of adding more modals and call to actions, and popunders. They don't realize at the end of that track is a brick wall of 0% growth as new visitors are instantly turned off. If I werent' already committed to using Medium, I'd click away the instant I saw the site as it reminds me too much of spam-blog pages.
- carapace 9y agoI just reached the point of "ew, no" when I'm about to click a link that I can see is going to go to Medium due to the popups that start, "You've read N articles on Medium, ..." I can't recall what the rest says because by the time I've scanned the first part I've already right-clicked to "inspect" to delete the element. (Then I cleared all Medium cookies, but that doesn't prevent them from showing the popup again, and it still has the N so obviously they are storing it server-side. :-( ) Bleah.