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Speaking of being tired of the modern web: I think HTTP/HTML are fine. However medium really sucks, can't everyone start hosting their webpages somewhere else? This is slow on my mobile (even with adblocker) and this "open in app" bar doesn't want to disappear even if it's bringing no value

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"Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—things like article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I'm sorry, but I think for this article that seemed relevant since the real article title starts with "tired of the modern web", then discuss the merits of the "old" web. I thought the article media was itself a good illustration of what was wrong with the "new" web.

HTTP and HTML are fine. It's what people (eg. Medium) do with them that we complain about.

   - Monopolistic platforms
   - Annoying advertising
   - Creepy tracking
   - Walled gardens of content
   - Needless SPA-ification 
   - Engagement optimization
   - Gamification 
   - Dark patterns

You can still very much develop websites like it's the 90's. You can even use tables for layout.

The only things we've really lost are MIDIs, <blink> / <marquee>, and Flash. And for some reason people don't like bedazzled mouse pointers anymore.

Fun fact -- yes <blink> is indeed lost, however <marquee> still enjoys first-class support across all major browsers!

https://caniuse.com/?search=marquee

I moved to write.as and it’s much more tailored to people who want to just share their blogs etc. like Medium was originally!

Their free tier is invite-only for now though.

It looks like they switched to invite-only this year.

A client of mine would like to start blogging, and I was hoping to recommend the write.as free tier. I'd be interested to hear what other alternatives folks here recommend, or a write.as invite link from a paid user if anyone has one to spare.

My experience seems to be a bit different, apparently. I see a lot of interesting content hosted there. HN is my only entry point to Medium, so for me that site ist just a blog hoster, like blogspot.com is. But I do dislike the latter somehow, as well as Wordpress.

For me Medium seems to be the only acceptable blogging platform, but neither do I use it myself as I don't blog, nor do I visit any non-tech/-science content on that site.

But I do use a very strict setting in uBlock Origin, so maybe that's causing the site "to behave". And I only visit it on the desktop.

I wondered if they posted it to medium as irony.

https://scribe.rip/

The ux with full size images or enlarging them onclick does not quite seem up to par.

https://medium.com/interaction-reimagined/regular-expression...

https://scribe.rip/interaction-reimagined/regular-expression...

HTTP and HTML were a hot mess since day one.

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