Ask HN: Do you avoid Medium.com links?

Yes. The articles on medium.com seem to be lightweight, designed for marketing purposes. All carbs, no protein.

I don't avoid it, but it does make me want to click less

I also avoid any groups that for some reason just keep popping up over and over and over (hackernoon for example). I like content aggregates because of content coming from different sources, not the same old ones!

Similar to RubyPinch: I don't categorically avoid them, but they do signal "low-quality" to me and are thus less likely to be clicked. (There are good authors on medium, but since the authorship isn't as prominent it's less likely I'll recognize them)

If HN readers upvote an article that's hosted there, I'm no less likely to click it than any other story.

Yes, written well but not enough real world depth of experience behind them.

Lately it seems they are very much marketing pieces

Yes, because I browse using an iphone 4s with ios8 and medium crashes. To be honest most websites crash, so I mostly read HN comments.

If it's on HN, I tend to pay them slightly more attention than other sources, but there is usually an implicit discouraging thought attached with it.

Scrolling through the article usually tells how bad it is, so a visit isn't usually too bad of an idea.

No, but I do avoid "articles" on Github pages if they still have the format of crankydev.github.com. I don't know why, but they all follow a similar format. I mean, buy a domain name and map it, right?

As for Medium, folks here have it right. I don't avoid them, but I go in 'eyes wide open'. Any place that allows super-easy 'publishing' should be viewed with suspicion. Editors are actually GOOD things. So, pretty much that means No Facebook Ever.

No, I don't avoid Medium links.

It's just another content medium. Ignoring Medium isn't anymore logical than avoiding Blogger or Svbtle. There are short and long, shallow and deep, low quality and high quality pieces on Medium, just like any other open content platform.

Yes. I surf the web through Tor and Medium.com asks me to prove I'm not a robot. I don't like that, so I stopped reading Medium.com.

With Medium custom domains, it's hard to tell if an article is on Medium. Personally I avoid Medium like the plague[1], and the custom domains have been a real problem. Although the interface usually gives the article away and I can tell it's a Medium post. Don't let custom domains fool you!

[1] https://medium.com/@joe_wegner/why-i-dont-write-for-medium-c...

I don't avoid medium links, I avoid reddit links, links from dedicated haters, links from dedicated virtue signallers, people who pretend to be from the bay area but they moved here and are not actually from here and various other issues of necessity. I enjoy the format and the recommend feature so we can actually reach people and I like the design. Idk I just have fun with it, here's mine.

medium.com/@thecolorofnight

https://medium.com/@thecolorofnight/sayings-from-the-catacom...

>Sayings from the Catacomb of Eustorgius the 'Epicurean'