This submit pretty well encapsulates all that is wrong with Medium, in my view.
First of all, they seem to have some new loginwall interface that makes you provide an email address (or authentication through a social media provider, so hello to all the Facebook adware instrumentation crap. That process includes a photo interpretation captcha with images that, on mobile, are blurry to the point of uselessness. Next, assuming you DO successfully navigate a captcha set, it dumps you too the generic Medium landing page, NOT to the specific article you originally clicked on.
Then, trying to find said article by its title puts you through a fuzzy search algorithm that qualifies far, far more articles that actually contain just your search terms. It's almost as bad as Netflix in that regard.
Finally, by narrowing down the search term as much as possible, I find an article with a very similar but not the exact same title. I drill down into that article, and it ends up being just a typical Medium book list full of Amazon affiliate-tag links.
First of all, they seem to have some new loginwall interface that makes you provide an email address (or authentication through a social media provider, so hello to all the Facebook adware instrumentation crap. That process includes a photo interpretation captcha with images that, on mobile, are blurry to the point of uselessness. Next, assuming you DO successfully navigate a captcha set, it dumps you too the generic Medium landing page, NOT to the specific article you originally clicked on.
Then, trying to find said article by its title puts you through a fuzzy search algorithm that qualifies far, far more articles that actually contain just your search terms. It's almost as bad as Netflix in that regard.
Finally, by narrowing down the search term as much as possible, I find an article with a very similar but not the exact same title. I drill down into that article, and it ends up being just a typical Medium book list full of Amazon affiliate-tag links.
Result? Accelerating Medium abandonment rates.