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> Read the rest of this story with a free account Are people writing on Medium aware of this?

by pier25 6y ago

airstrike 6y ago
Meanwhile I got "You have 1 free member-only story left this month. Sign up for Medium and get an extra one". Outside of that, private mode + reader view in Firefox usually does the trick
- mariuolo 6y ago
  https://archive.ph/GODWY https://archive.ph/GODWY
Etheryte 6y ago
Small tip regarding Medium, click the padlock in the URL bar, click cookies and remove all that contain medium.com in their name. No more article count limit.
- pier25 6y ago
  Awesome tip, thanks!
  - ralphc 6y ago
    This bothered me so much I made a bookmark to the cookies setting. This is much better, thanks from me.
- Stratoscope 6y ago
  Thank you for that tip. I can't tell you how many times I've wanted to clear cookies for a site and done it the roundabout way: go into settings, search for "cookies", remember which of the four matches under "privacy and security" is the one that works (and not the seemingly obvious "clear browsing data"), type in the domain, and go from there. Your trick of clicking the padlock (which I assume also works on the warning icon for non-HTTPS sites) is so much easier!
tonystubblebine 6y ago
For anyone seeing this, I tried to help Medium solve this coming from the other direction, which is to make it an over the top good value for HN readers to not only log in but also pay for the $5 subscription. That's really what Medium aspires to be--a place worthy of a five dollar subscription. Many people here probably end up on Medium repeatedly via Google search and yeah, the results are mixed. But also, it's worth noting that a lot of those results wouldn't exist at all without Medium paying and encouraging writers and editors. What I hoped would start to take Medium over the top though was the addition of all of The Pragmatic Programmer books. That was paid for by other tech people who had already subscribed. (And I played a role in bringing them on board). There's more coming. But overall, this is 100% Medium's direction and belief that a soft paywall is a better business and a bigger win for all parties than free & ad supported. So this paywall isn't going away, and it's really on them to do more to justify it.
- pier25 6y ago
  > That's really what Medium aspires to be--a place worthy of a five dollar subscription. That's not going to happen simply because Medium is not responsible for the content. There's really nothing positive associated to the Medium brand in terms of content. Users want valuable content for their money and won't pay a subscription to a hosting provider.
  - tonystubblebine 6y ago
    You don’t think the Pragmatic Programmer books are valuable?
    - pier25 6y ago
      Sure, but why pay a subscription (to Medium of all companies) when I can just buy the book I specifically want to read? Edit: btw the point I was making earlier is not if there is actually some value in Medium or not. I'm sure there are interesting and valuable pieces already there. But you need more than that to convince people to pay a subscription.
okareaman 6y ago
Unless they've changed this, Medium is one of those sites that asks you to sign in with Facebook or Google, and then after you give them your email and profile picture (why?) they come back and say you still can't read it. I hate that. I don't have a good feeling about Medium because of this. It's trickery.

> Read the rest of this story with a free account Are people writing on Medium aware of this?

by pier25 6y ago

> Read the rest of this story with a free account Are people writing on Medium aware of this?

Meanwhile I got "You have 1 free member-only story left this month. Sign up for Medium and get an extra one". Outside of that, private mode + reader view in Firefox usually does the trick

mariuolo 6y ago
https://archive.ph/GODWY https://archive.ph/GODWY

Etheryte 6y ago

Small tip regarding Medium, click the padlock in the URL bar, click cookies and remove all that contain medium.com in their name. No more article count limit.

pier25 6y ago
Awesome tip, thanks!
- ralphc 6y ago
  This bothered me so much I made a bookmark to the cookies setting. This is much better, thanks from me.
Stratoscope 6y ago
Thank you for that tip. I can't tell you how many times I've wanted to clear cookies for a site and done it the roundabout way: go into settings, search for "cookies", remember which of the four matches under "privacy and security" is the one that works (and not the seemingly obvious "clear browsing data"), type in the domain, and go from there. Your trick of clicking the padlock (which I assume also works on the warning icon for non-HTTPS sites) is so much easier!

tonystubblebine 6y ago

For anyone seeing this, I tried to help Medium solve this coming from the other direction, which is to make it an over the top good value for HN readers to not only log in but also pay for the $5 subscription. That's really what Medium aspires to be--a place worthy of a five dollar subscription. Many people here probably end up on Medium repeatedly via Google search and yeah, the results are mixed. But also, it's worth noting that a lot of those results wouldn't exist at all without Medium paying and encouraging writers and editors. What I hoped would start to take Medium over the top though was the addition of all of The Pragmatic Programmer books. That was paid for by other tech people who had already subscribed. (And I played a role in bringing them on board). There's more coming. But overall, this is 100% Medium's direction and belief that a soft paywall is a better business and a bigger win for all parties than free & ad supported. So this paywall isn't going away, and it's really on them to do more to justify it.

pier25 6y ago
> That's really what Medium aspires to be--a place worthy of a five dollar subscription. That's not going to happen simply because Medium is not responsible for the content. There's really nothing positive associated to the Medium brand in terms of content. Users want valuable content for their money and won't pay a subscription to a hosting provider.
- tonystubblebine 6y ago
  You don’t think the Pragmatic Programmer books are valuable?
  - pier25 6y ago
    Sure, but why pay a subscription (to Medium of all companies) when I can just buy the book I specifically want to read? Edit: btw the point I was making earlier is not if there is actually some value in Medium or not. I'm sure there are interesting and valuable pieces already there. But you need more than that to convince people to pay a subscription.

okareaman 6y ago

Unless they've changed this, Medium is one of those sites that asks you to sign in with Facebook or Google, and then after you give them your email and profile picture (why?) they come back and say you still can't read it. I hate that. I don't have a good feeling about Medium because of this. It's trickery.