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I've already said this here, but progressive degradation is a great strategy going like this: you start with a sane and nice baseline, and then add crap to that for supported browsers and configurations.
You can be thankful to Medium for adopting this technique, because if everybody did that, you'd get a perfect Web by just blocking Javascript on anything that is supposed to be a freaking document. Please lobby for this. The team behind Medium might even be secretly doing this on purpose but don't tell their boss.