Medium 1.0

This article (https://medium.com/beautiful-stories/66e87553d22c) is a hodge-podge of design decisions. The way images are displayed is a mess: some images float next to text, some float next to text with a caption next to them, some images are centered, some images have quotations in them. To divide sections of text, sometimes there are hr's, sometimes there's a single line with a little loopy thing, sometimes there are parallaxy headers.

Medium may be easy to use but if people think they can click a few buttons and pop out a "beautiful story" they are mistaken.

Call me an old-timer but I would rather just read text without a bunch of stuff in my way.

Heck, one of their own graphics shows the issue with the responsive cover images. The "Imagining the Post-Antibiotics Future" article's cover image almost completely crops out the woman on the left when viewed on an iPad or iPhone, which is to my eyes the most poignant part of the image.

I absolutely adored the old Medium design. I applaud them for continuing to innovate, but this one is going to have to grow on me.

[1] Example http://www.stoyanr.com/2012/12/evictor-java-concurrent-map-w...

I published an article to Medium earlier today, which I submitted to the 'on startups' collection curated by Ev. I'm not sure if it was actually Ev or another Medium employee, but I'm impressed at minimum to the level of commitment these guys are providing to the Collections element.

Cool urls don't change.

Looks like I'll have to wait for 2.0 to see if I am interested in the content.

They've done an amazing, and I'd love to pattern after them.

It's a shame, I loved the old design but I guess someone thought, that the size of the images was not big enough...