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People, please don't post things in medium, because it wants people to sign up. Use GitHub pages or anything else really.
by motoboi 4y ago
People, please don't post things in medium, because it wants people to sign up. Use GitHub pages or anything else really.
- jacooper 4y agoThere is also hashnode.com
- rlewkov 4y agoExactly. Won't read because it requires sign up.
- baal80spam 4y agoIf you're on Firefox there's an extension to bypass this (only for Medium's free articles) - https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clea...
- metadat 4y agoI'm not keen on playing the browser plugin escalation game with fundamentally UX hostile sites like Medium. They clearly have no respect for the human being at the end of the line trying to simply read a document.
- thatguy0900 4y agoThis is extremely melodramatic. They literally just want money so they don't have to run ads
- JohnFen 4y agoFor this article, anyway, they don't want money. At least, the form claims that signing up is free -- so they just want an account created. (Which I'm not OK doing, because that tells me that they want to track me, presumably for advertising purposes.)
- waynesonfire 4y agoi want money toooooo.
- wpietri 4y agoIt's worse than that. They took at least $163m in venture money: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/medium/company_financials https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/medium/company_finan... They've been flailing around for a decade in search of a model that works. If UX hostility is what it takes to have a story that retroactively justifies the investment, UX hostility is what we'll get.
- demindiro 4y agoThere is also LibRedirect[1] which automatically redirects to an alternative frontend. [1] https://github.com/libredirect/LibRedirect https://github.com/libredirect/LibRedirect
- gumby 4y agoarchive.ph cuts through the medium paywall too.
- contravariant 4y agoAs does basic cookie hygiene. At least I assume that's what's happening, I haven't seen a medium paywall yet.
- ThunderSizzle 4y agoI'm torn on this, honestly. We want an internet with less ads, but good writers deserve to get paid. They can get paid via Medium (though how much, I don't know) through subscriptions. Is that the worse than ads or newspapers?
- Victerius 4y agoI enjoy good writing, but the only writing I'm willing to pay for is print books (I just bought a copy of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Fall of Gondolin", the hardcover, illustrated one by HarperCollins). I don't want to pay for newspapers, for investigative journalism, or for long form article magazines like The Atlantic or The New Yorker. Nevermind Medium of all places, because Medium has no barrier of entry. No gatekeeping (and, given how easy it is to merely write a blurb of text, I have rather high standards for what I choose to pay to read). I'd rather consume from the likes of Amazon and have them run these writing platforms (e.g. WaPo) at a loss. Which means I'm paying for writers, in the end, just in a very indirect way. This sits well with me. But if the choice before me was to pay for writers directly (like Medium), or let non-book writers as a profession disappear, I'd opt for the latter. You may criticize this attitude. I assume the responsibility for that and I'm being honest.
- echelon 4y agoI want a world where I pay creators directly.
- landemva 4y agoBrave browser allows me to send tips to content creators. I like it. https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/360021123971-How-do-I-tip-websites-and-Content-Creators-in-Brave-Rewards- https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/360021123971-How...
- bachmeier 4y agoWhat you say is true, but that doesn't mean it should be posted to HN. The purpose of this site is to discuss articles. This one's behind a paywall. Even if you sign up for a free account, you may have used up your two free articles per month. That invites people to comment without reading the article. That's not why HN exists. (I actually checked the comments hoping someone posted a copy of the article.)
- RockRobotRock 4y agoIt seems rude to derail an entire thread because of author's choice of CMS.
- dspillett 4y agoI too generally avoid Medium, but I wouldn't demand someone else change their choice of publisher to please me. If from the comments here, or wherever is referring me to an article, I get the impression that it will be interesting/useful to me, I'll maybe go look, if not then I won't. Or sometimes the discussion the link starts is enough such that I get useful references of things to look at in other places instead (or just learn what I might want to from the discussion directly). Heck, sometimes just the subject is enough to start searching for other references.