burneMay 19
Mark (N3MSC)
May 16 at 6:34pmWeb
Show threadmarinheiroMay 17
@mcornick ,๐Ÿ˜‚
Show threadSam BryanMay 17
@mcornick I finally cracked and created a Medium account the other day, as there was one article I wanted to read. Zeus that was a mistake, instant deluge of email.
Show thread`Da ElfMay 19

@samb @mcornick

Yep. I've learned to avoid Medium like the plague.

The hassle makes the content irrelevant.

Show threadTomasz NurkiewiczMay 17
@mcornick only one pop-up? Phew! https://fosstodon.org/@nurkiewicz/114500114012570127
Tomasz Nurkiewicz (@nurkiewicz@fosstodon.org)

Attached: 1 image I wanted to read this but with 3 pop-ups to close, no thank you. And in the end, it's probably paywalled anyway...

Fosstodon
Show threadAnomalous HumanMay 17
@mcornick I have no doubt that the author believes they are contributing to an important topic. Just not in the way they think.
Show threadAlexander ShendiMay 17

@mcornick

An unreadable website complaining bout how the Web became unreadable!

Show threadMichael OrmsbyMay 17

@mcornick Marshall McLuhan was wrong. Today the medium is becoming a barrier to access and thinking.

To be fair to McLuhan, it would have been hard for him to have foreseen todayโ€™s enshittification of public discourse.

Show threaddundeeMay 17
@mcornick that escalated quickly
Show threadSteve ButmanMay 17

@mcornick

Brilliant.

Show threaddirtsideMay 17
@mcornick now that's comedy
Show threadvascorsdMay 17
@mcornick I highly recommend for people to configure their browsers to always open new links into a private tab (on firefox android, this exists) so they can all experience the modern web in all its glory 
Show threadBoris KretzingerMay 17
@mcornick fitting ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ‘
Show threadDavidMay 17

@mcornick

really unreadable : no link

Show threadAshley CaveMay 17
@mcornick where is the annoying floating video that has no relation to the article you're reading, with a tiny or nonexistent close button? ๐Ÿ™ƒ
Show threadNazoMay 17

@mcornick And often enough, when you click the X on that, another popup comes up. Then, when you close that one, it turns out it was a paid article and you can't read it anyway.

We all started blocking popups for a reason. It even became a browser default to not allow popups except for specific conditions such as a click because it was abused so much. But apparently no one took the hint and just invented a new kind of in-page popup that is even more annoying (because you can't simply ctrl+w these.)

And they actually have the audacity to demand we turn off our ad blockers while doing this...

Show threadT2RMay 17
@mcornick itโ€™s unreadable because of all the cookie notices and whining about ad blockers followed by paywalls. Thatโ€™s why itโ€™s unreadable.
Show threadBillMay 18

@mcornick

Classic self own.

Show threadAsterisk ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆMay 18
@mcornick if you need a frontend like https://scribe.rip to read something, why bother? I havenโ€™t read a good Medium article in my life.
Scribe

Show threadqwertzMay 18

@mcornick I have discovered that in some cases these "pop ups" are just cover elements that can be removed by deleting lines of code using the web debugging option e.g. Firefox

From mobile with firefox if you use this function (image attached) you can some times bypass the pop up and still read the article.

Show threadDerek MartinMay 19
@mcornick @Crell Iโ€™m designing a new business site right now. Going old school. So far it has zero javascript and zero trackers. Iโ€™ll add progressive enhancement. CSS in the <head>, with just 1 breakpoint. No ads. No build process. It feels fast as hell developing this way. Iteration is instant.
Show threadtieMay 19
@mcornick Quite convincing, straight from the get-go.
Show threadchocobo13ฮถMay 19
@mcornick
Poor web design choices have contributed to Medium, indeed
Show thread`Da ElfMay 19

@mcornick
This. So Very this.

And I swear it's Worse on desktop than mobile, and that's saying something.

Show threadmbeddedDevMay 20
@mcornick q.e.d.
Show threadAri Gardens as a VerbMay 20
@mcornick Ah ha ha ha, perfect example.
Show threadRoseanna Cunningham ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ๐Ÿ––May 20
@mcornick ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚ - I donโ€™t even bother trying to navigate most of it
Show threadThis is HellMay 20
@mcornick @tayfonay ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ
Show threadoblateMay 20

@mcornick I had an account on Medium. I gave up on it for precisely the problem you highlight.

It's difficult to overstate how bad Medium is.

Show threadNerdNextDoor Jun 1
@mcornick straight to the point I see.