A recent post here linked to a medium.con blog. It is fairly representative of everything I hate about the platform.
Now granted they just host user generated content. So this is really an indictment of their users not their web infrastructure. I have heard they SEVERELY censor anything that is politically right of Che Guevara so this perhaps somewhat accounts for the quality of their users. But DAMN! Even farcebook and twatter still have people at least attempting to speak from the world of reality.
I can honestly say 95% of EVERYTHING I’ve ever seen on medium is just plain garbage. When looking for IT answers I quite literally wont even click on them anymore. They are either retardedly simple with some moron spending 9 paragraphs on copying files to a new directory or just plain wrong.
Medium is a 21st century digital sewer of useless garbage. It is the broken window theory brought into the virtual world. Like flies attracted to a corpse; only this time the flies are IRL NPCs and the corpse is what should have been a human intelligence.
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[–] notYOURfriend 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Like you, I've never really learned anything from a medium.com link.
Indeed, whenever I have had the misfortune of accidentally clicking on a link I've been inundated with paragraphs and paragraphs of verbal diarrhea. Things that could have taken a few sentences to communicate are spread out into pages and pages - probably because the authors are paid by article length, not conciseness.
Worthless site, almost as worthless as Experts Exchange (which seems to have disappeared, strangely enough).
[–] beece ago
Correct. V/LyingNewsMedia