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+Ranting about medium
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+
+Well, first of all, let's talk about what medium means to me. It's a size of
+clothing which is just about my size but it feels totally uncomfortable when
+wearing it.
+
+Secondly, it also means the "in-between" thing, the medium which helps two or
+more things communicate. The "via" thing that enables something to happen. For
+example, a medium can be a cable between two devices, but it can also be a more
+broad mediator between other things.
+
+Another thing that medium can mean is the "average", going back to clothing, it
+could be large or small but it's something in-between those too.
+
+Then, there is this annoying website... a place where people can blog-post and,
+obviously, publish texts of various subjects. Unfortunately, for this case,
+medium stand for mediocracy. For sure, I haven't read them all and even more
+surely, neither I can or want to. Be aware this is a rant, me complaining about
+the unconveniences I find about this site, the feel and let me heads-up you
+first with the following: I will be vaguely over-generalizing. If you are an
+author there and feel like being affected or mistreated, assume that I haven't
+read something of yours. But even if I had read something of yours and still
+wanted to apply my critique on you, this should not be affecting you. It's an
+opinion upon an opinion. You can choose if it matters to you or not.
+
+With the disclaimer out of the way, let's start!!!
+
+F#$%!$ FLASHBANG! No dark mode, just "pure" whiteness in front of your face as
+well as the typical high pitch tone after the explosion. Seriously, worse thing
+ever.
+
+After the initial buzz and your eyes adjust to the brightness, yet another
+surprise: a flat big "modal" that covers everything and asks for subscription.
+Let me tell you something medium.com: I just visited this page, coming from a
+search engine result. How on Earth would I ever be willing to subscribe to
+someone's blog if I didn't even have the opportunity to read a couple of lines?!
+Are you out of your mind? [point and click the "x" button]
+
+And now to the average post... scrolling, looking here and there to catch
+keywords. Oh, some code snippets, looks like it is what I want. Well, not so
+quick. Something seems odd, the text before the snippet confirms: this is yet
+another post describing a subcategory of a problem that someone used at some
+point. I mean, good for them, but how did I end up there?! [goes back at search
+results]
+
+Looking for other links, [clicks a couple more], yet no luck. Reaches another
+medium post, same stuff all over again: flashbang, point and click,
+uncomprehensive read. After sometime, you get the right link!!! Hooray!
+
+You exceeded the amount of articles for today.
+
+TLDR: As far as I understand, medium.com is not for me, I don't like it, it's
+annoying, people that write in there inherit the annoyances of it, people that
+read it, I wonder what they find about it useful.
+
+I mean, it looks like a blogging platform, as substitude for linkedin posts.
+Same corporate mindset, less corporal expression. And no, I don't read linkedin
+posts. The fact that some people want you to acknowledge they are in a corporal
+bubble is the most stupid thing ever.
+
+Yeah, that's it. I have the need to express myself, but I also have the need to
+not extensively waste my time on such matters.
+
+See ya.