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One needs to login to read. I'm sorry, medium is not a very charitable blog host, and will cost the blog a large part of its audience with these new rules, unfo

One needs to login to read. I'm sorry, medium is not a very charitable blog host, and will cost the blog a large part of its audience with these new rules, unfortunately.

OneLeggedCat 6y ago
True, but this IS Hacker News, and most of us in here can easily get around this particular one .
- tutfbhuf 6y ago
  Yes, but it's pretty annoying nonetheless. https://outline.com/aS4yWR https://outline.com/aS4yWR
lxe 6y ago
I'm getting pretty irritated that the Web is inundated with Medium. It used to be just a nice blog host, and now I don't even know what it is. Glad Substack is picking up steam.
- sp332 6y ago
  You know Substack has paid subscriptions too, right?
- anderspitman 6y ago
  How is substack today different from Medium a few years ago? More importantly, what's different about their incentives that will prevent them from becoming what Medium is today?
EricE 6y ago
Yup - second time today I am also required to log in. No thanks.
pmiller2 6y ago
https://archive.is/xPB0B https://archive.is/xPB0B
citrons 6y ago
Incognito helps override this.
Lukas_Skywalker 6y ago
The Medium Unlimited browser addon works pretty well: https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/medium-unlimited-read-for-free/ https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/medium-unlimited...
1vuio0pswjnm7 6y ago
"One needs to login to read." Not if Javascript is disabled. No need for cookies either. Alternatively, blocking cdn.client.medium.com where the Javascript is sourced in Developer Tools or via ad blocker, /etc/hosts, DNS, etc. will work, too.
- meditative 6y ago
  pictures fail to load when I block the domain
  - 1vuio0pswjnm7 6y ago
    Some of the images do not load when Javascript is disabled because the web developer has chosen to include three different-sized copies of the same image and use Javascript to emulate a "zoom" effect. Quick fix: remove the <noscript> tags curl https://alexellisuk.medium.com/upgrade-your-raspberry-pi-4-with-a-nvme-boot-drive-d9ab4e8aa3c2 |sed 's/<noscript>//g;s/<.noscript>//g' > 1.htm firefox ./1.htm Note you can still zoom on these images. Right-click and open the image in a new tab, then zoom. Or you can open the larger versions in a browser tab and then zoom. The full URLs for all different-sized copies of images can be seen with view source.
- kzrdude 6y ago
  There's a lot of countermeasures listed here in the responses, including this. :) Good to know but the default experience matters. I have a beef here and I want the author to know that they need to switch blog host if they want their articles to be out on the open web and not behind logins or whatever.
  - 1vuio0pswjnm7 6y ago
    I was careful to only quote the first sentence of the comment. I understand and agree with the point being made in the remainder of the comment. I also think the "default experience" matters in terms of web browsers. Why do they all default to Javascript and cookies enabled. In this case, and there are hundreds of thousands of others, neither was technically necessary to read the blog.
mceachen 6y ago
FWIW, no login with Firefox, ublock origin, and a pihole.
alexellisuk 6y ago
I don't think you understand how Medium works. This is part of the paywall, pay-wall is opt-in for content. And incognito browser will get you to read the post for free, but I won't get any royalties as the author, if that's what you want. I honestly don't understand why developers have such a problem valuing their time and the time of others.

One needs to login to read. I'm sorry, medium is not a very charitable blog host, and will cost the blog a large part of its audience with these new rules, unfortunately.

OneLeggedCat 6y ago

True, but this IS Hacker News, and most of us in here can easily get around this particular one .

tutfbhuf 6y ago
Yes, but it's pretty annoying nonetheless. https://outline.com/aS4yWR https://outline.com/aS4yWR

lxe 6y ago

I'm getting pretty irritated that the Web is inundated with Medium. It used to be just a nice blog host, and now I don't even know what it is. Glad Substack is picking up steam.

sp332 6y ago
You know Substack has paid subscriptions too, right?
anderspitman 6y ago
How is substack today different from Medium a few years ago? More importantly, what's different about their incentives that will prevent them from becoming what Medium is today?

EricE 6y ago

Yup - second time today I am also required to log in. No thanks.

pmiller2 6y ago

https://archive.is/xPB0B https://archive.is/xPB0B

citrons 6y ago

Incognito helps override this.

Lukas_Skywalker 6y ago

The Medium Unlimited browser addon works pretty well: https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/medium-unlimited-read-for-free/ https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/medium-unlimited...

1vuio0pswjnm7 6y ago

"One needs to login to read." Not if Javascript is disabled. No need for cookies either. Alternatively, blocking cdn.client.medium.com where the Javascript is sourced in Developer Tools or via ad blocker, /etc/hosts, DNS, etc. will work, too.

meditative 6y ago
pictures fail to load when I block the domain
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 6y ago
  Some of the images do not load when Javascript is disabled because the web developer has chosen to include three different-sized copies of the same image and use Javascript to emulate a "zoom" effect. Quick fix: remove the <noscript> tags curl https://alexellisuk.medium.com/upgrade-your-raspberry-pi-4-with-a-nvme-boot-drive-d9ab4e8aa3c2 |sed 's/<noscript>//g;s/<.noscript>//g' > 1.htm firefox ./1.htm Note you can still zoom on these images. Right-click and open the image in a new tab, then zoom. Or you can open the larger versions in a browser tab and then zoom. The full URLs for all different-sized copies of images can be seen with view source.
kzrdude 6y ago
There's a lot of countermeasures listed here in the responses, including this. :) Good to know but the default experience matters. I have a beef here and I want the author to know that they need to switch blog host if they want their articles to be out on the open web and not behind logins or whatever.
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 6y ago
  I was careful to only quote the first sentence of the comment. I understand and agree with the point being made in the remainder of the comment. I also think the "default experience" matters in terms of web browsers. Why do they all default to Javascript and cookies enabled. In this case, and there are hundreds of thousands of others, neither was technically necessary to read the blog.

mceachen 6y ago

FWIW, no login with Firefox, ublock origin, and a pihole.

alexellisuk 6y ago

I don't think you understand how Medium works. This is part of the paywall, pay-wall is opt-in for content. And incognito browser will get you to read the post for free, but I won't get any royalties as the author, if that's what you want. I honestly don't understand why developers have such a problem valuing their time and the time of others.