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When I load a Substack article, I see the article, with only the distraction of the "JavaScript required" banner at the top, and the page works without JavaScri
by forgotmypw17 4y ago
When I load a Substack article, I see the article, with only the distraction of the "JavaScript required" banner at the top, and the page works without JavaScript.
When I load a Medium article, half the article isn't even on the page initially, and it may or may not load, depending on what they think my status is at the moment. The page janks around repeatedly as all of this is happening. Then, as I am reading the article, which I usually don't get around to doing, because I've already conditioned myself to never open medium.com links, there are other things competing for my attention on the page, such as the same author's other articles, other authors' articles, and promotions for Medium itself.
- jacooper 4y agoTry Scribe, a private front end for medium and GitHub Gists. https://scribe.rip/ https://scribe.rip/
- czottmann 4y agoThat proxy is great, thanks for sharing! Most annoying thing about Medium pages is the multi-second waiting period while the page is loading. (On Chrome on a M1 Pro, mind.)
- jacooper 4y agoYou can install an extensions called libredirect that would auto redirect, Medium, YouTube, Twitter and many others to private proxies. Its not available on the chrome store because of manifest V2, there is privacy redirect but its abandoned and doesn't support scribe. https://github.com/libredirect/libredirect https://github.com/libredirect/libredirect
- dubswithus 4y agoYou can open medium links in incognito mode.
- flyingfences 4y agoI can. I shouldn't have to.
- dubswithus 4y agoBecause you have a right to view an article on medium?
- jacobr1 4y agoNo, for UX reasons. If your content is primarily text and images ... then you should NEED javascript to view page. Maybe it is needed for comments, or some other feature, but the basic content should be viewable just fine. This is good both the readers, for accessibility for things like screen readers, for bandwidth and more. That doesn't mean medium OWES us this, but one can still make the critique.
- user00012-ab 4y agoI also skip any article that is from medium, not just because of the noise on the screen, but medium seems to just be people "building their brand" by repeating what other people have already said.
- rchaud 4y agoAt some point, Substack will require Javascript, just as Medium eventually did.
- forgotmypw17 4y agoThat is an interesting prediction, what makes you think that?