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Medium, Mid May…
What can I say…?
Oh Medium, How do I (not) love thee…? Let me count the ways…
The mobile app sucks. The web interface is anemic. The membership fees are not worth the frustration of using this site, what with all of its glitches. And obnoxious little cunts get to block you for doing nothing more than trying to pass on useful information related to something they wrote about.
I certainly wouldn’t pay $50 a year to read the opinion page of my local newspaper, so there’s really no point it doing the same for the ‘pleasure’ of reading most of the crap which exists here on Medium. Definitely wont be renewing my membership here next month.
What’s more, the Medium tech team can’t seem to get its collective thumb out of its collective ass long enough to ensure a consistent user interface across all points of access. I, for one, refuse to use the mobile app. Therefore, I use the mobile web interface. That, however, doesn’t allow one to reply to content. To solve this, I use the toggle switch in my mobile browser to switch between the normal mobile web and the “desktop” version. This presents a further problem, in that entering text from a mobile keyboard into the reply box causes it to glitch and impede my ability to reply. My work-around to this failure of competent tech oversight is to type a reply in my email client and then cut and paste into…
