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I am consistently dissappointed with links pointing to medium.com. I wish there was a feature of HN to block webistes from view. I no longer want to see any a

I am consistently dissappointed with links pointing to medium.com. I wish there was a feature of HN to block webistes from view. I no longer want to see any articles referencing medium.com.

elisee 13y ago
There are browser extensions that let you filter by keyword (maybe even domain). One of them is HackerNew (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hackernew/lgoghlndihpmbbgmbpjohilcphbfhddd https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hackernew/lgoghlnd...)
hboon 13y ago
Why are you disappointed with links to medium.com?
- rcavezza 13y ago
  I do a lot of HN reading on the train. Medium.com articles only show 1 sentence of content and the rest of the page breaks (or at least doesn't load or appear on my screen). (Using Opera on Android)
- scorcher 13y ago
  For a start there is no guts to the article. It could be summarised in one line, "Time is valuable, make your default position no"
- rfnslyr 13y ago
  Most articles are shite. I feel that casual users upvote anything medium because it has sort of established itself as an important platform for good developers. However, if you read most of them, it's just rambling and you don't learn anything. A lot of it is very ranty.
casca 13y ago
medium.com is just a blogging platform. Others on HN have expressed the desire to block links to certain sites with particular agendas - do you see medium.com as having an agenda that you find distasteful?
future_grad 13y ago
Does this disappoint you more? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5917922 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5917922
zhemao 13y ago
The site is shown in the little parenthetical section next to the link text. You could just mentally filter by not clicking on links with (medium.com) next to it.
- zhemao 13y ago
  Of course, the font is vanishingly small, so I could understand if you think that method puts too much of a strain on your eyesight.

I am consistently dissappointed with links pointing to medium.com. I wish there was a feature of HN to block webistes from view. I no longer want to see any articles referencing medium.com.

elisee 13y ago

There are browser extensions that let you filter by keyword (maybe even domain). One of them is HackerNew (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hackernew/lgoghlndihpmbbgmbpjohilcphbfhddd https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hackernew/lgoghlnd...)

hboon 13y ago

Why are you disappointed with links to medium.com?

rcavezza 13y ago
I do a lot of HN reading on the train. Medium.com articles only show 1 sentence of content and the rest of the page breaks (or at least doesn't load or appear on my screen). (Using Opera on Android)
scorcher 13y ago
For a start there is no guts to the article. It could be summarised in one line, "Time is valuable, make your default position no"
rfnslyr 13y ago
Most articles are shite. I feel that casual users upvote anything medium because it has sort of established itself as an important platform for good developers. However, if you read most of them, it's just rambling and you don't learn anything. A lot of it is very ranty.

casca 13y ago

medium.com is just a blogging platform. Others on HN have expressed the desire to block links to certain sites with particular agendas - do you see medium.com as having an agenda that you find distasteful?

future_grad 13y ago

Does this disappoint you more? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5917922 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5917922

zhemao 13y ago

The site is shown in the little parenthetical section next to the link text. You could just mentally filter by not clicking on links with (medium.com) next to it.

zhemao 13y ago
Of course, the font is vanishingly small, so I could understand if you think that method puts too much of a strain on your eyesight.