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Comment by jwr | Hacker News Reader

I wonder if people posting on Medium realize that for many of us the articles are inaccessible ("Sign up for a free Medium account, and you’ll get one more story in your member preview this month"). It seems that people missed the change in Medium's business model and still think that it's a site for posting publicly accessible articles.

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To those replying with "dismiss the popup", that does not seem to be an option for everyone. For example, this is what I see: https://imgur.com/a/04W0om0

For me it helped when I cleared all the site data. But quite annoying nonetheless.

Medium is awful and should be boycotted.

It's a shame https://telegra.ph doesnt have the ability to save/send yourself an edit link. Being able to only edit your story on the computer you made it on is a big turnoff.

Sounds like what that site really needs is the same thing that almost every other major site has -- accounts.

I'm not entirely sure about this, but isn't the edit ability of Telegraph based on what I believe is a cookie, it seems to be called "tph_uuid" and you can see it if you press F12 in Firefox, go to "Network", reload the page, find the single POST and you can see it in the request headers.

Meaning, as long as you don't clear your cache you should be fine, and if you do, maybe you can back it up somewhere.

You can use @telegraph on Telegram to save/edit on your account.

nice. clunky but it works.

Without JavaScript, they load quickly and without popups or membership requirement on my end.

If you set up a non-standard browsing environment you can get around it, but it's still a trash experience for the rest of us. I no longer follow Medium links at all.

All you need is one plugin, uMatrix, to solve it. Prevent medium from loading cookies and javascript, and you're good. You do need to enable the github gist javascript though to see gists.

I already solved it, by not following the links. I don't need to complicate my life to work around some user-hostile business model.

Images in the articles don't display for me without JS, do they work for you?

Not to justify them or anything but as a workaround to this many many similar awful behaviours, Reader mode on Safari is a handy way to ignore all this.

It does, but if there are images in the post, Reader mode loads blurry images because medium serves blurry previews until you scroll past the position of the image. It’s quite infuriating.

For me, the window containing that message has a "close" icon at the top right, and then I can read the article.

If you don't have a similar close icon I'd be interested in seeing a screenshot of what you can see.

I have no love for Medium, but so far I've been able to read everything, so I'd be interested to see how my experience differs from yours.

I get

"Read smarter, not harder. You have one story remaining in your free member preview for this month. Unlock the best of Medium when you upgrade for $5/month."

down at the bottom.

I don't know what we're doing differently. I always get an annoying pop-up trying to get me to register or to become a member, but there's always a close icon, and I never seem to be blocked from reading.

I wonder how our setups differ ...

Yeah I thought it was pretty funny that someone on Medium of all places wrote an article called "X Site is Broken". Medium is the running with Yelp and Scribd for site people complain the most about.

same. Guido is currently writing a series on PEG parsers. but medium won't let me read a single one of these posts. i don't even know what the reasons are. can't be that i reached my free reading quota this fast...

https://beta.trimread.com/articles/189

It usually opens fine in incognito mode.

Even as a member this article is paywalled. Nowadays regardless of the authors intention of keeping the article available or not, the default is paywalled and many people miss it.

Eww, they made this opt-out now? That might actually convince me to migrate...

After the backlash from the hard paywall they switched to the soft one- you can dismiss that popup by clicking the X in the top right corner of it.

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