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Maybe now they can spend a month working on a way to get Medium to render—at all—in Safari. I'm sure it's an interaction with some script blocker I run, but abo
by idlewords 12y ago
Maybe now they can spend a month working on a way to get Medium to render—at all—in Safari. I'm sure it's an interaction with some script blocker I run, but about half the pages just end up blank except for header and footer.
To me this is what is annoying about Medium on a technical level. Everything has to be too pretty by half, resulting in a brittle website where things are constantly fading in and out of view while a gentle breeze comes forth from my laptop fan.
Sufficiently well-written articles don't require a sumptuous bubble bath of design, complete with scented candles and Keith Sweat record, to set the atmosphere for me. I can probably live with the results if you only spent two weeks on the underlines. Just show me the damned text already.
- morgante 12y agoAgreed. Nothing about the Medium frontend (despite its prettyness) requires JS at all. I'm not sure why it wouldn't be completely compatible across the board.
- compedit 12y agoWhich ones are you running? With Ghostery alone, everything works on my end.
- idlewords 12y agoAll I have running is Ghostery, too. A page like this loads with header and footer intact, but no rendered text: https://medium.com/@cshirky/last-call-c682f6471c70 https://medium.com/@cshirky/last-call-c682f6471c70
- kmfrk 12y agoThe problem is that Medium isn't as well-designed as they market it; I remember when the font size was even bigger than it already is, and I can find plenty of places with much better readability than Medium.
- chimeracoder 12y agoIf you block referrers, Typekit won't load and you'll end up with a blank article until it times out (either 5 or 10 seconds) and falls back to the default font. Try waiting a bit and seeing if it loads. I agree that this is incredibly annoying, though.