We Need Medium's Editor, Not Medium

It would be nice if some graphical examples (maybe gifs) of the Medium editor were provided. As someone who hasn't published on Medium I'm not familiar with its user experience. Googling didn't really turn up any results other than the open source clone pointed out by nickjj.

A Medium'ish open source editor does exist at https://github.com/yabwe/medium-editor. Almost 10k stars too.

You can demo it here: https://yabwe.github.io/medium-editor/demo.html

It's funny because I feel kind of the opposite. If I post something on Medium it's because I feel the name has some gravitas associated with it and I want to take advantage of that.

But their editor is pretty primitive, if you ask me. It's got a sleek design, but from what I've gathered is missing a lot of important functionality. Most specifically, there isn't a good way to do code blocks or an ACE editor or anything like that.

Couldn't disagree more. If I could easily edit somewhere else and paste into Medium I would. For me, the main value in Medium is the follower model, easy distribution, and great UX for reading articles.