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kudos to ev & medium — a word-class UX and product.
no it's not. it just sits there while you press space bar, page down, etc etc. this is not world class ux.
This was a mistake introduced by a last minute change. We'll have a fix deployed soon.
Page down, space, down arrow: nothing can move the screen! Took me a good 15 seconds...
Jesus, even the up and down arrow buttons don't work, that's awful.
It only works if you move the scroll bar or middle mouse wheel.
It's been like that since the beginning, makes reading their sites a real hassle.
Vimium works! It's most likely an intentional challenge to make you stop using the arrow keys and start embracing HJKL.
Wow, this is a sad day
Space bar had been broken for a while, then fixed. No page down, space, or down arrow is a truly remarkable feat of web breaking.
what browsers are people who can't navigate the page with page up/down / arrow keys / space? I'm running firefox and can do so without issue.
Chrome Version 31.0.1650.57, internet explorer 10 and Firefox 25.01 on Windows 7 do not support keyboard navigation.

It also fails to work on a Samsung Chromebook.

What version of firefox and os are you using?

It seems to be hit or miss for me; I could move the page around just fine but at some point I couldn't. Not sure what triggered that broke it.
It also works fine for me, Firefox 26 beta on Windows 8.1.
We have a fix for Chrome coming soon, something we overlooked in a last minute change.
The fix was deployed. Happy keyboard scrolling.
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.

We're looking into this. Trying to find our android test device :-/
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.
Should be fixed on monday. Was a super weird rendering bug.
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.
This is likely related to typekit loading. Do you block referrers?
I'm seeing the same thing and do block referrers
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)
Looks awesome. Already signed up. Can I link to pictures hosted somewhere else or everything is hosted on your platform?
sweet - for an account or invite? if the latter, email me (address above in this thread)

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.

If I've already requested access, will that form help me get in sooner?
email me - kyle at elepath . com
Thanks, but I just got the invitation anyways. Excited to try it out!
Ev provided edits to my article O_o

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.

afaik Ev is the only person who accesses his account, so it was almost certainly him.
Does anyone, or can anyone fill in some information on mediums stack? How they've managed to scale so well, etc?

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

scale so well? What makes you believe they have scale? I mean this in a non-snarky way, I’d love to know how “well” they are doing.
Given their popularity and traffic for a small company, I have never seen a performance hiccup. In my mind, that's scaling well.
Interesting that the JS is concatenated and mangled but not minified (and the source maps are basically self-referential).
Minified, but pretty printed for easier debugging without source maps. The whitespace gzips pretty well.
Completely broken on Opera Mini.

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

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.

Cool urls don't change.