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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.
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