Medium

“It's Medium and Substack that have converged into the slop-nexus that nobody can even pretend to like.”

“Or just use Medium like all the other bloggers”

“we have to go to a whole slew of walled gardens to read posts from folks, such as substack, medium, twitter”

“if content is hosted at Medium, it's probably not worth one's time compared to a classic blog”

“The interface is quite nice otherwise.”

“you are CONSTANTLY bombarded with pointless pop-ups, slide-ins, and pester-naggers”

“0 impressions, literally, for 5 posts that got some readership on our blog.”

“that's the real strength of Substack and Medium—people are already there to spend money because they're earning from the same ecosystem”

“it’s mostly a bunch of undergrads and tech bootcamp students regurgitating basic tutorials”

“Medium is where you can post and get a bit of what substack offers”

“Substack gives a really nice exposure though, unlike medium and other platforms.”

“It was initially populated by refugees from Medium, itself enshittified”

“Sadly it is not just Medium, but a bunch of other Windows apps too.”

“As soon as they opened up to everyone, almost right away the quality dropped.”

“Nowadays Medium is just AI slop and low-effort surface-level takes from people trying to build a personal brand.”

“It's a thousand times more annoying than just taking a little longer before showing anything.”

“There's only so many free hosts out there that I'd be confident will be around in 5 years, and Medium is one of them.”

“The reading experience is abhorrent; I couldn't even finish reading this article before a full screen popup literally blocked the sentence I was reading.”

“platforms come and go. I have experienced it myself with Medium, WordPress, etc.”

“immediately started raising walled gardens around them to become discovery platforms”

“stop spending your valuable time on bottom-feeder content like medium articles, facebook, twitter/bluesky”

“Medium is not one of the largest content providers anywhere, in any form that I'm aware of.”

“All of the previously submitted articles are similarly paywalled.”

“Medium posts, Stack overflow threads with passive-aggresive mod comments”

“has migrated to things like Medium and Substack, which I guess is more convenient (and monetizable) for writers, but is more annoying for readers.”

“The way Medium used my non-monetized account as a subscription/registration trampoline.”

“Medium's annoying way it blocks zooming in/out on images when on mobile is limiting and frustrating!”

“Is it a coincidence that that's around the time frame that I noticed the Medium web site becoming slower than it used to be?”

“Ironically posted on Medium, which showed me the text, then blanked the whole screen”

“Medium is a bunch of APIs and (micro) services, not a monolith like it should be.”

“I have a special hatred for medium.com because almost everything over there is aggressively paywalled”

“Medium throws a lot of roadblocks up to your average viewership. Everyone I know treats Medium URLs like Quora - avoid at all costs.”

“Medium doesn't drive nearly as much traffic as it used to.”

“full of surface-level takes on language and technology choice without going into serious technical detail”

“all the commercial blogging services like medium have scummy tracking and analytics built in”

“low-effort-high-volume junk that Medium "bloggers" became known for churning out”

“sites like Medium came along and tried to centralise and commercialise it”

“tries to bring down the friction of making valuable content available at a reasonable price”

“I don't even start reading a Medium article now if I can see that pop-up below”

“since Medium was used as a source for high-quality writing”