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This is extremely melodramatic. They literally just want money so they don't have to run ads
by thatguy0900 4y ago
This 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.