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[gdsdfe]

So now medium is straight up not letting people read an article unless they're logged in ... Disgusting.

[martin_a → gdsdfe]

Disgusting, indeed. But as long as these links are accepted here, nothing won't change.

Take this in the meantime: https://outline.com/qsv7ab

[sgt → martin_a]

Would be great if we could have built-in Outline support on HN, or some kind of bot commenting a link automatically when someone posts a story with a paywall. Just throwing an idea out there. :)

[omneity → sgt]

That's a great idea actually! @dang are such bots allowed in HN? I can roll it out pretty easily with Monitoro (https://monitoro.xyz) and would be happy to cover the costs.

[gdsdfe → martin_a]

Thx!

[Tepix → gdsdfe]

I'm not logged in and it lets me read it. But I probably didn't have a cookie from Medium when i went there.

So try deleting your Medium cookies as a workaround.

[askvictor → gdsdfe]

I hate the fact some sites using their own domain use medium, and still require the login.

[sky_rw → gdsdfe]

There is also a limit on articles you can read before they throw up a paywall. No clue why anybody would use this as their blogging platform.

[Reelin → sky_rw]

I thought that was opt-in by the author?

[sgt → Reelin]

No, they've changed that. They probably received funding and are now desperate to earn that money back. There should be a site like Medium that wasn't tainted by Vulture Capitalists.

[bvm → gdsdfe]

I am logged in, and I can't read it.

[SeriousM → gdsdfe]

I use Firefox focus which has no session or cookies stored, and I never has a problem with medium articles. Do they save the read articles locally in normal browsers and block the user after a certain threshold?

[zzo38computer → gdsdfe]

The article works fine for me, and I do not have an account for that. (I don't like the formatting, but it is readable.) (I don't even see any mention of login.)

[slowhand09 → gdsdfe]

google readium...