In my best Shirley voice: Is this you being met-a?
this post was submitted on 19 May 2025
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Since it's a Medium article, if it's not paywalled by the author anyone can either close that popup and continue reading with the intended formatting or edit the adress from medium.com to scribe.rip for a cleaner reading experience.
Other than using Wordpress or building a static site wherever free hosting is available, Medium's offer for bloggers is still pretty solid if you care for their additional features and ease of use. If only they had ActivityPub integration... π Suggestions are welcome, as I'm evaluating my options to migrate a Medium "magazine" somewhere else. Write.as sadly doesn't cut it.
building a static site
PLEASE yes, make a simple HTML website straight out of the late 90's and provide a RSS feed.
It will load fast, it will load on any device, I can actually focus on your content, I can read on any screen. Please do just that.
To find out why the web has become unreadable scroll past the adverts. You have 2 more free articles.
If a writer cares so little about their audience that they put their article on Medium, it's not worth reading.
The purpose of Medium is to sell advertising to generate as large a return for investors as possible. As a blogging or "journalism" platform it's mostly a scam for those who don't know better.
Oh yeah, Medium. "HeRe's a 27 WoRd aRtIcLe wRiTtEn bY A FiVe yEaR OlD NoW GiVe mE AlL YoUr mOnEy."
Worse is when you're viewing in landscape and the UI isn't even on the screen and sometimes impossible to get to.
is catbox a prank or something? are you all just coordinating in pms to pretend there's an image? is this some mass gasslighting campaign?
They have issues with a few ISPs, check your DNS, depending on where you are it might need a VPN. https://catbox.moe/faq.php
It looks like they don't like NordVPN's dns. I knew I should have swotched when my sub ran out last time.
Mullvad π
No port forwarding for piracy :(
it clearly loads fine for everybody else so it must be an issue on your end...
I don't believe you.
βIβm doing my partβ
- the author, probably
Medium's strategy there is probably part of the reason for writing it. I doubt they're oblivious. Probably not unintentional.
If the popup menu goes away with a single click, it doesn't bother me too much. I'm okay with sites letting me know that they need donors to minimize ads, or just letting me know about cookie permissions.
My pet peeve is when they ask for your email to read a free article.
cookie menus that don't have a decline button but instead a" manage" button where you have to untick every single bit individually
A website I used to frequent changed their cookie pop-up so that there was a message saying if you don't want to accept cookies to go to "manage settings" at the bottom of any page. The only way that you could close the pop-up was to click the "accept all cookies" button. The pop-up was so big it blocked the bottom of the page so you could never get to the "manage settings" link without clicking the "accept all cookies" button to close the pop-up. I have not been back to this site since they made the change.
Literally the worst
The worst so far...
DON'T FUCKING SAY ANYTHING MORE
It's not a free article if they require anything from me.
If the popup menu goes away with a single click, it doesn't bother me too much.
Still not accessible tho.
Great tip: the reader mode in browsers sometimes bypasses this, letting you read the full article.
12ft.io
Also, uBlock kills all this stuff.
Sure, it kills ads. It doesn't instantly give you access to every paywalled article.
No, uBlock is a CMS for the browser; 9/10 "paywalls" go away if you block third-party scripts.
Yep, ublock and reader mode make browsing a much better experience
Don't you think?
A little too ironic...
Yeah, I really do think.
Is it like a couple of situations that are slightly awkward, hyperbolic but devoid of irony?
It like raaaaaiiiin on a fun-parade!
Or rain right before the rain dance ceremony?
We will make it ironic