While I dislike Medium too, I think this post as well as the comments are very quick to jump to conclusions and assume the worst possible intent with very little information. The much more likely explanation, which is almost always the cases in these scenarios, is that it was a bug or bad push.

It's perfectly fine to dislike Medium, but I dislike how easily everyone throws them under the bus at the slightest issue without even looking to understand what actually happened.

This is Hacker News. We hate everything.

I hope more people will use open source self-hosted platforms like Ghost. We used medium before, but experience, including their api was just awful.

Definitely some schadenfreude in these comments.