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mahouse
And what about an extension to hide "Show HN" posts?
DGCA
It'd be pretty easy to mod this to do that. I can't tell if you're being snarky but I could actually do that if you really want me to. I could also change the alert to read "# dreams were crushed."
mahouse
I think it would be better to use GreaseMonkey for this than having an extension.
jayzalowitz
I sort of want to see this extension exist, just for the caption....
codeflo
Or maybe just, you know, don't click them?
dmschulman
Maybe he works for Quartz or Vox!
DGCA
I don't. That'd be a hell of a competitive strategy, though.
blazingswrd
Out of curiosity, why do some people want to hide Medium articles?
pbreit
Because they are idiots. Seriously. Medium articles are not super-prevalent (4 in top 200 right now). And tend to be more thoughtful than much of the content that shows up here.
aroch
Its not the articles, its the platform (and its aesthetics). Medium is not meant for things like code samples and shoehorning them in leads to these fullwidth blocks which are hard to read. The fullwidth images and embeds are also somewhat annoying.

There are better places to reproduce your content

edit, fixing a typo

_lce0
so you would rather hide the "content" because you dont like how it's presented?
DanBC
Why do you care what other people are hiding?
pbreit
Because it's dumb and I don't like dumb things and it's frustrating that people spend their time on dumb things when there are so many non-dumb things that they could do instead. Clutters up HN & the Chrome Store and reinforces dumb thinking.
pbreit
At this point, I guess I'm honored to be downvoted. This community is trending toward pathetic.
DGCA
Someone requested it on DN because they prefer to visit Medium directly. I made it pretty much because I could. To be honest, I have it installed but keep it off.
carlob
I accidentally have something similar: since I have ghostery on and it blokes some adobe typekit JS, medium.com articles are all blank except for the top image for me.
makmanalp
At first I thought this is an oversight on their part for not providing a web safe font fallback, but they do. Maybe it's because when ghostery blocks the url, so the browser thinks the font exists and doesn't fall back to the next one somehow.
carlob
I have no idea, it's somewhat intermittent. Anyway it's very annoying and it's making me avoid medium somehow.
satyrnein
I just submitted something I wrote on Medium. Did I break some rule?
maxerickson
Probably not. People are weirdly picky and want their vision of the best possible 30 articles to always be on the front page.
DGCA
Not at all, there's a ton of good content on Medium. This was just a little project, not some commentary on Medium as a platform.
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tyang
Maybe this is for folks who already see a lot of Medium articles on Twitter, etc. and want less saturation of Medium articles.
DGCA
That's definitely one of the target audiences :)
jg116
So why do people dislike Medium.com articles?
azinman2
Why? What's wrong with an article that just happens to be hosted on medium?
BlakePetersen
Exactly what I was thinking. What is the value of removing medium articles from HN/DN?
DGCA
Some people like to visit Medium directly, some people try to avoid Medium altogether. This is for them.
roma1n
Reminds me of those IRC bots that would automatically ban AOL subscribers...