Medium was originally a great experience for the reader. No interstitials, no ads, no unrelated photos, no pleading to "follow" or "become a member". Just you

Medium was originally a great experience for the reader. No interstitials, no ads, no unrelated photos, no pleading to "follow" or "become a member". Just your text, nicely formatted. Compare a simple article, across the years: 2014: https://web.archive.org/web/20141201191740/https://medium.com/@fields/now-its-about-the-things-that-you-cant-have-8e8e8613f041 https://web.archive.org/web/20141201191740/https://medium.co... 2019: https://medium.com/@fields/now-its-about-the-things-that-you-cant-have-8e8e8613f041 https://medium.com/@fields/now-its-about-the-things-that-you... Once they started achieving critical mass, like every other free-to-use webpage, they loaded it full of crap.