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Something that wasn't mentioned is that there is a reading cap for Medium articles if the user doesn't pay. Something that is frustrating is finding some techni

Something that wasn't mentioned is that there is a reading cap for Medium articles if the user doesn't pay. Something that is frustrating is finding some technical documentation for a project on Medium and being hit with "you hit your reading cap of 5 stories..." and having to open up an incognito window. That is dumb. I shouldn't have to pay money to get around a pay wall for a project's technical documentation.

austinpena 6y ago
Blocking cookies and never logging in has solved that problem for me.
gwd 6y ago
> I shouldn't have to pay money to get around a pay wall for a project's technical documentation. But that's on the project, not Medium; and if they want to be paid for the work that goes into their documentation, what's the problem? I mean, seriously, Medium is $5/month, for loads of advertising-free content. Why not just subscribe?
- bleuarff 6y ago
  Has the project team any say in this, or is it just Medium doing their thing?
  - tonystubblebine 6y ago
    Every article behind the paywall on Medium is there because the author put it there.
- beervirus 6y ago
  Why not just reward this user-hostile behavior??
  - gwd 6y ago
    Sorry, seem to have been mixing two messages: For one, if you don't like a project using a freemium service for its documentation, then take it up with the project, not with Medium. Secondly, documentation isn't free; is it really that unreasonable for projects to want to be funded for the work they're doing? Medium is pretty cheap. If you're running into your Medium limit regularly, why not just subscribe?Complaining that you have to pay $5/mo to access a resource you use a lot, when you're probably paying $50/mo for internet anyway, seems a bit unreasonable.
EdwardDiego 6y ago
Haha yep, hit a Go logging library where the documentation was a link to a Medium post. That raised my eyebrows.
CodeyWhizzBang 6y ago
When you write an article on Medium you can choose whether to put it behind the paywall and monetize it, or make it available to everyone for free and not monetize it. That feels like a pretty good capability to me really.

austinpena 6y ago

Blocking cookies and never logging in has solved that problem for me.

gwd 6y ago

> I shouldn't have to pay money to get around a pay wall for a project's technical documentation. But that's on the project, not Medium; and if they want to be paid for the work that goes into their documentation, what's the problem? I mean, seriously, Medium is $5/month, for loads of advertising-free content. Why not just subscribe?

bleuarff 6y ago
Has the project team any say in this, or is it just Medium doing their thing?
- tonystubblebine 6y ago
  Every article behind the paywall on Medium is there because the author put it there.
beervirus 6y ago
Why not just reward this user-hostile behavior??
- gwd 6y ago
  Sorry, seem to have been mixing two messages: For one, if you don't like a project using a freemium service for its documentation, then take it up with the project, not with Medium. Secondly, documentation isn't free; is it really that unreasonable for projects to want to be funded for the work they're doing? Medium is pretty cheap. If you're running into your Medium limit regularly, why not just subscribe?Complaining that you have to pay $5/mo to access a resource you use a lot, when you're probably paying $50/mo for internet anyway, seems a bit unreasonable.

EdwardDiego 6y ago

Haha yep, hit a Go logging library where the documentation was a link to a Medium post. That raised my eyebrows.

CodeyWhizzBang 6y ago

When you write an article on Medium you can choose whether to put it behind the paywall and monetize it, or make it available to everyone for free and not monetize it. That feels like a pretty good capability to me really.