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Show HN: Chrome extension that hides Medium.com articles on HN and DN
- mahouse 12y agoAnd what about an extension to hide "Show HN" posts?
- DGCA 12y agoIt'd be pretty easy to mod this to do that. I can't tell if you're being snarky but I could actually do that if you really want me to. I could also change the alert to read "# dreams were crushed."
- mahouse 12y agoI think it would be better to use GreaseMonkey for this than having an extension.
- DGCA 12y agoI really like being able to turn it on/off just by clicking the icon. Also, Chrome. You're right, though, it'd make a good GreaseMonkey script.
- ubercow 12y agoTampermonkey is great for this kind of stuff on Chrome. Provides quick toggle for userscripts too. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tampermonkey/dhdgffkkebhmkfjojejmpbldmpobfkfo?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tampermonkey/dhdgf...
- jayzalowitz 12y agoI sort of want to see this extension exist, just for the caption....
- codeflo 12y agoOr maybe just, you know, don't click them?
- dmschulman 12y agoMaybe he works for Quartz or Vox!
- DGCA 12y agoI don't. That'd be a hell of a competitive strategy, though.
- blazingswrd 12y agoOut of curiosity, why do some people want to hide Medium articles?
- pbreit 12y agoBecause they are idiots. Seriously. Medium articles are not super-prevalent (4 in top 200 right now). And tend to be more thoughtful than much of the content that shows up here.
- aroch 12y agoIts not the articles, its the platform (and its aesthetics). Medium is not meant for things like code samples and shoehorning them in leads to these fullwidth blocks which are hard to read. The fullwidth images and embeds are also somewhat annoying. There are better places to reproduce your content edit, fixing a typo
- _lce0 12y agoso you would rather hide the "content" because you dont like how it's presented?
- DanBC 12y agoWhy do you care what other people are hiding?
- pbreit 12y agoBecause it's dumb and I don't like dumb things and it's frustrating that people spend their time on dumb things when there are so many non-dumb things that they could do instead. Clutters up HN & the Chrome Store and reinforces dumb thinking.
- pbreit 12y agoAt this point, I guess I'm honored to be downvoted. This community is trending toward pathetic.
- carlob 12y agoI accidentally have something similar: since I have ghostery on and it blokes some adobe typekit JS, medium.com articles are all blank except for the top image for me.
- makmanalp 12y agoAt first I thought this is an oversight on their part for not providing a web safe font fallback, but they do. Maybe it's because when ghostery blocks the url, so the browser thinks the font exists and doesn't fall back to the next one somehow.
- carlob 12y agoI have no idea, it's somewhat intermittent. Anyway it's very annoying and it's making me avoid medium somehow.
- satyrnein 12y agoI just submitted something I wrote on Medium. Did I break some rule?
- maxerickson 12y agoProbably not. People are weirdly picky and want their vision of the best possible 30 articles to always be on the front page.
- DGCA 12y agoNot at all, there's a ton of good content on Medium. This was just a little project, not some commentary on Medium as a platform.
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- tyang 12y agoMaybe this is for folks who already see a lot of Medium articles on Twitter, etc. and want less saturation of Medium articles.
- DGCA 12y agoThat's definitely one of the target audiences :)
- jg116 12y agoSo why do people dislike Medium.com articles?
- azinman2 12y agoWhy? What's wrong with an article that just happens to be hosted on medium?
- BlakePetersen 12y agoExactly what I was thinking. What is the value of removing medium articles from HN/DN?
- DGCA 12y agoSome people like to visit Medium directly, some people try to avoid Medium altogether. This is for them.
- roma1n 12y agoReminds me of those IRC bots that would automatically ban AOL subscribers...