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Medium 1.0
- marban 13y agokudos to ev & medium — a word-class UX and product.
- andrewcooke 13y agono it's not. it just sits there while you press space bar, page down, etc etc. this is not world class ux.
- dpup 13y agoThis was a mistake introduced by a last minute change. We'll have a fix deployed soon.
- elwell 13y agoSarcastic?
- swah 13y agoPage down, space, down arrow: nothing can move the screen! Took me a good 15 seconds...
- jdminhbg 13y agoSpace bar had been broken for a while, then fixed. No page down, space, or down arrow is a truly remarkable feat of web breaking.
- s_kilk 13y agoJesus, even the up and down arrow buttons don't work, that's awful.
- artursapek 13y agoBut - but it's so pretty!
- ihuman 13y agoIt only works if you move the scroll bar or middle mouse wheel.
- hugi 13y agoIt's been like that since the beginning, makes reading their sites a real hassle.
- msvan 13y agoVimium works! It's most likely an intentional challenge to make you stop using the arrow keys and start embracing HJKL.
- elwell 13y agoWow, this is a sad day
- sdpope 13y agowhat browsers are people who can't navigate the page with page up/down / arrow keys / space? I'm running firefox and can do so without issue.
- pgrote 13y agoChrome Version 31.0.1650.57, internet explorer 10 and Firefox 25.01 on Windows 7 do not support keyboard navigation. It also fails to work on a Samsung Chromebook. What version of firefox and os are you using?
- jlongster 13y agoIt seems to be hit or miss for me; I could move the page around just fine but at some point I couldn't. Not sure what triggered that broke it.
- eigenvector 13y agoIt also works fine for me, Firefox 26 beta on Windows 8.1.
- dpup 13y agoWe have a fix for Chrome coming soon, something we overlooked in a last minute change.
- dpup 13y agoThe fix was deployed. Happy keyboard scrolling.
- iampims 13y agoSafari 7.0, Mac OS X.
- rkudeshi 13y agoIs it just me or is this worse than before? Slower, much less responsive, and harder to read. Heck, one of their own graphics shows the issue with the responsive cover images. The "Imagining the Post-Antibiotics Future" article's cover image almost completely crops out the woman on the left when viewed on an iPad or iPhone, which is to my eyes the most poignant part of the image. I absolutely adored the old Medium design. I applaud them for continuing to innovate, but this one is going to have to grow on me.
- mgraczyk 13y agoI can't read anything on medium on my Nexus 5 with the latest version of Chrome. When I stop scrolling the page, it hiccups and jumps 2-3 lines so I lose my place. Looks like I'll have to wait for 2.0 to see if I am interested in the content.
- dpup 13y agoWe're looking into this. Trying to find our android test device :-/
- mgraczyk 13y agoWow thanks for the reply. I noticed it mainly (possibly exclusively) occurs when the navbar comes into view, or goes out of view (so scroll up, release,then scroll down). It gets annoying because the nav bar reappears if you switch tabs, or leave chrome and come back later.
- arkitaip 13y agoI see that they still haven't solved the lag issue where it takes content some time to actually load. Silly bug considering how basic and small the content is.
- dpup 13y agoThis is likely related to typekit loading. Do you block referrers?
- ehPReth 13y agoI'm seeing the same thing and do block referrers
- dpup 13y agoTypekit understandably wants to make sure that no one else uses the font bundles, so they check the referrer. If you strip referrers it'll block the response and eventually it'll timeout, and show using the default system font. The choice is a delay for the few people who block referrers or a flash of unstyled content for everyone else.
- ehPReth 13y agoAh, I see. Quite silly in my opinion but thanks for the answer. I'm fine with how it is -- there isn't a reason to protect the minority in this case: bigger fish to fry. :)
- mcmire 13y agoI don't get the "Beautiful Stories" section. All of the articles look pretty much the same. Same full-width image peekaboo parallax banner thingy at the top, same font, same look. This article (https://medium.com/beautiful-stories/66e87553d22c https://medium.com/beautiful-stories/66e87553d22c) is a hodge-podge of design decisions. The way images are displayed is a mess: some images float next to text, some float next to text with a caption next to them, some images are centered, some images have quotations in them. To divide sections of text, sometimes there are hr's, sometimes there's a single line with a little loopy thing, sometimes there are parallaxy headers. Medium may be easy to use but if people think they can click a few buttons and pop out a "beautiful story" they are mistaken. Call me an old-timer but I would rather just read text without a bunch of stuff in my way.
- kylebragger 13y agoIf you're looking for something more photo-driven, I'm working on a thing called Exposure: https://exposure.so/invite/hn https://exposure.so/invite/hn (opening this week but we'll invite folks from that link ASAP)
- hamxiaoz 13y agoLooks awesome. Already signed up. Can I link to pictures hosted somewhere else or everything is hosted on your platform?
- kylebragger 13y agosweet - for an account or invite? if the latter, email me (address above in this thread) right now photos are hosted by us. haven't considered linking to photos elsewhere yet, mainly since we need to run them thru a few processing steps.
- cwe 13y agoIf I've already requested access, will that form help me get in sooner?
- ajiang 13y agoEv provided edits to my article O_o I published an article to Medium earlier today, which I submitted to the 'on startups' collection curated by Ev. I'm not sure if it was actually Ev or another Medium employee, but I'm impressed at minimum to the level of commitment these guys are providing to the Collections element.
- rouxbot 13y agoafaik Ev is the only person who accesses his account, so it was almost certainly him.
- film42 13y agoDoes anyone, or can anyone fill in some information on mediums stack? How they've managed to scale so well, etc? They've done an amazing, and I'd love to pattern after them.
- dpup 13y agoThis is a surprisingly accurate assessment from someone outside the company: http://www.quora.com/Medium-website/What-is-Mediums-technology-stack http://www.quora.com/Medium-website/What-is-Mediums-technolo... But it would be good if we documented this more formally. I'll see if someone wants to write a post.
- iampims 13y agoscale so well? What makes you believe they have scale? I mean this in a non-snarky way, I’d love to know how “well” they are doing.
- film42 13y agoGiven their popularity and traffic for a small company, I have never seen a performance hiccup. In my mind, that's scaling well.
- iampims 13y agoThey’ve now joined Blogspot[1] for the title of “Javascript all the things, and break default behavior” [1] Example http://www.stoyanr.com/2012/12/evictor-java-concurrent-map-with-timed.html http://www.stoyanr.com/2012/12/evictor-java-concurrent-map-w...
- __derek__ 13y agoInteresting that the JS is concatenated and mangled but not minified (and the source maps are basically self-referential).
- dpup 13y agoMinified, but pretty printed for easier debugging without source maps. The whitespace gzips pretty well.
- nelmaven 13y agoCompletely broken on Opera Mini. It's a shame, I loved the old design but I guess someone thought, that the size of the images was not big enough...
- captn3m0 13y agoWhat I don't like about medium is the constantly changing URLs. A story gets popular and is re-posted on another collection. BAM, the url just changed. You add your post to a collection, URL changed. You remove it, it does that again. Cool urls don't change.
- bteitelb 13y agoSnowfallization!