There have been a lot of medium.com links lately. On Firefox version 20 on Mac, the text always takes forever to load. This doesn't happen in other browsers and in Firefox it's the only site I ever notice this with.
Why do all links on medium point inwards?
Arguments made by those who don't know better are:
1. To track clicks on outbound links
2. To preserve "pagerank" or some such think.
Neither of these are strong arguments since you can track outbound clicks with G.Analytics or any other analytics service worth using, and outbound links have about zero impact on pagerank of the linking page.
What reason could possibly be so great that you choose to break the web for it?
"break the web" is a little melodramatic though.