I was about to comment the same thing. I’ve always hated medium and refrain from reading stuff there when possible (Medium required me to unblock too much on my Adblock) but lately they’ve been outright refusing to show me the content without

“To keep reading this story, get the free app or log in.”

No thanks. I’ll pass.

Personally, nowadays, I think people should just use a static site generator like Hugo, Jekyll, mkdocs etc. They’re pretty easy to use and you can host for free on github pages, digitalocean app platform or even cloudflare worker sites. Yes it’s a little more effort getting started and I guess it’s scary for non-technical people, but at least programmer/tech people who occasionally write an article should do it.

It's more accurate to say the publication and the author are requiring a login. There's a huge number of authors and publications that have bundled themselves within Medium's $5/month subscription in order to get paid. I own this publication, Better Programming, and it's the money from being in the subscription bundle that allows us to publish consistently. Hacker News is an entrepreneurship community right? But sometimes it feels uncouth to say "I want to get paid for my work." Well, I do. And if Medium thinks a "metered paywall" where there's some try before you buy going on is the most effective way for us all to get paid, then that's fine by me. That's what I'm getting at about the login wall being my choice as the publication.

Same with Quora