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Comment by gwbas1c | Hacker News Reader

> The one thing I wish that Google offered would be the ability to blacklist sites for a period (coud be fixed - say 6 months).

I wish I could do that at Hacker News too.

I really just don't want anything from medium.com.

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That's a weird thought. Medium might be irritating as an interface or as a business but there are still some really interesting things written on it, no?

There may be good content on medium, but more often than not I'm frustrated by long-winded, less accurate retellings of official documentation. I think it might be because of the monetization. People have an incentive to write shallow blog posts/tutorials on things like "throwing an exception with Python." If I'm out of options I will skim through a Medium post, but usually I avoid them at first because they tend to be less helpful than non-Medium blogs, official docs, etc.

This is completely anecdotal but most medium (and similar platforms) that I end up on from HN are basically an A4 page of what is essentially nothingness.

This is not to say it’s not interesting, because it is, but what typically happens is that I end up in the “want to know more” state, but then don’t actually get to know more. This is not really on the medium authors, it’s more just my social media consumption taking me back to HN and then never looking into it again, but that also means that my time on the medium article was sort of wasted doesn’t it?

I can’t for the life of me remember a single medium article that had any sort of impact on me or anything I do tech wise.

I've found the Medium posts that make it to Hacker News to be drivel: Uninteresting and inaccurate. The titles themselves are interesting, but the content itself isn't worth reading.

It's happened so much that I just won't click on anything that's on medium.com.

I've noticed the same thing, but (like n=2, so take it with a grain of salt) even for authors whose other writings I enjoy; I wonder if there's something weird with how they structure the incentives for writing there such that this is what you get

Seems like you could do that in a reasonably thorough way on HN with an ad block filter.

Quick and dirty version for uBlock Origin:

  news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing:has(a[href*="medium.com"])
  news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing:has(a[href*="medium.com"]) + tr
  news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing:has(a[href*="medium.com"]) + tr + tr.spacer

If somebody can improve this, please share.

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