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I think mediums UI is nice, but as far as i can tell, you cant include code snippets so its almost useless for blogging about programming - until the change tha

I think mediums UI is nice, but as far as i can tell, you cant include code snippets so its almost useless for blogging about programming - until the change that, I am going to continue to use jekyll.

goronbjorn 13y ago
They do support code blocks: https://medium.com/help-center/128f049a7ad https://medium.com/help-center/128f049a7ad (just search the page for "Code block")
- nilkn 13y ago
  It's pretty limited (e.g., no syntax highlighting) and if you're not careful it will do things like change double quotes (U+0022) to curly quotes (e.g., U+201C and U+201D).
joeyyang 13y ago
They do support code blocks (cmd-6), but unfortunately, they're not styled in any other way (syntax highlighting, etc.) which makes code blocks somewhat unpleasant to read.
untog 13y ago
I don't think programmers (writing about code) are Medium's main target market.
- misiti3780 13y ago
  i understand that, but ostracizing a group of people that are probably some of their core users right now (tech community) seems stupid - adding the feature would be very easy
  - pseut 13y ago
    "ostracizing" is a pretty extreme way of putting it.
  - droob 13y ago
    You are a programmer that just said "adding the feature would be very easy."
    - eropple 13y ago
      Maybe it's "should be easy" rather than "would be easy", but there's probably something wrong if it's not, yeah? Pretty much every other blogging engine does this and without a ton of effort. Code highlighting libraries exist in pretty much every web language (is there a serious one that doesn't have a Pygments equivalent?). It's just markup.
    - kevando 13y ago
      Jokes for the 1%
  - dopamean 13y ago
    "Ostracizing" is a pretty strong word here.
    - yen223 13y ago
      "It's like apartheid, but with programmers."
spindritf 13y ago
Isn't https://coderwall.com/ https://coderwall.com/ the medium's counterpart for programmers? I don't use either, just throwing it out there.

goronbjorn 13y ago

They do support code blocks: https://medium.com/help-center/128f049a7ad https://medium.com/help-center/128f049a7ad (just search the page for "Code block")

nilkn 13y ago
It's pretty limited (e.g., no syntax highlighting) and if you're not careful it will do things like change double quotes (U+0022) to curly quotes (e.g., U+201C and U+201D).

joeyyang 13y ago

They do support code blocks (cmd-6), but unfortunately, they're not styled in any other way (syntax highlighting, etc.) which makes code blocks somewhat unpleasant to read.

untog 13y ago

I don't think programmers (writing about code) are Medium's main target market.

misiti3780 13y ago
i understand that, but ostracizing a group of people that are probably some of their core users right now (tech community) seems stupid - adding the feature would be very easy
- pseut 13y ago
  "ostracizing" is a pretty extreme way of putting it.
- droob 13y ago
  You are a programmer that just said "adding the feature would be very easy."
  - eropple 13y ago
    Maybe it's "should be easy" rather than "would be easy", but there's probably something wrong if it's not, yeah? Pretty much every other blogging engine does this and without a ton of effort. Code highlighting libraries exist in pretty much every web language (is there a serious one that doesn't have a Pygments equivalent?). It's just markup.
  - kevando 13y ago
    Jokes for the 1%
- dopamean 13y ago
  "Ostracizing" is a pretty strong word here.
  - yen223 13y ago
    "It's like apartheid, but with programmers."

spindritf 13y ago

Isn't https://coderwall.com/ https://coderwall.com/ the medium's counterpart for programmers? I don't use either, just throwing it out there.