Is it just me or is this worse than before? Slower, much less responsive, and harder to read.
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.
I can't read anything on medium on my Nexus 5 with the latest version of Chrome. When I stop scrolling the page, it hiccups and jumps 2-3 lines so I lose my place.
Looks like I'll have to wait for 2.0 to see if I am interested in the content.
Wow thanks for the reply. I noticed it mainly (possibly exclusively) occurs when the navbar comes into view, or goes out of view (so scroll up, release,then scroll down). It gets annoying because the nav bar reappears if you switch tabs, or leave chrome and come back later.
We're actually having a hard time reproducing (though we've received some interesting screen shots). Our nexus 4 and Nexus 7 look ok. Rest assured we'll be acquiring more devices and will try and fix.
I see that they still haven't solved the lag issue where it takes content some time to actually load. Silly bug considering how basic and small the content is.
Typekit understandably wants to make sure that no one else uses the font bundles, so they check the referrer. If you strip referrers it'll block the response and eventually it'll timeout, and show using the default system font.
The choice is a delay for the few people who block referrers or a flash of unstyled content for everyone else.
Ah, I see. Quite silly in my opinion but thanks for the answer. I'm fine with how it is -- there isn't a reason to protect the minority in this case: bigger fish to fry. :)
I don't get the "Beautiful Stories" section. All of the articles look pretty much the same. Same full-width image peekaboo parallax banner thingy at the top, same font, same look.
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.
If you're looking for something more photo-driven, I'm working on a thing called Exposure: https://exposure.so/invite/hn (opening this week but we'll invite folks from that link ASAP)
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.
What I don't like about medium is the constantly changing URLs. A story gets popular and is re-posted on another collection. BAM, the url just changed. You add your post to a collection, URL changed. You remove it, it does that again.
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[ 4.2 ms ] story [ 166 ms ] threadIt also fails to work on a Samsung Chromebook.
What version of firefox and os are you using?
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.
Looks like I'll have to wait for 2.0 to see if I am interested in the content.
The choice is a delay for the few people who block referrers or a flash of unstyled content for everyone else.
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.
right now photos are hosted by us. haven't considered linking to photos elsewhere yet, mainly since we need to run them thru a few processing steps.
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.
They've done an amazing, and I'd love to pattern after them.
But it would be good if we documented this more formally. I'll see if someone wants to write a post.
[1] Example http://www.stoyanr.com/2012/12/evictor-java-concurrent-map-w...
It's a shame, I loved the old design but I guess someone thought, that the size of the images was not big enough...
Cool urls don't change.