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I Complain About Medium a LOT, But Actually I Think Its Interface is Perfect Just the Way It Is
I’m so happy there’s no private message function. Imagine all the sleazeballs sliding into your dms. Ughh..
I’m probably not the only person here who got pissed the hell off that Medium took away the function of writing and submitting stories on your phone. I took serious offense, probably way more than what was necessary.
I feel it is a VERY classist move. So, only people with regular access to a computer may submit work? I have to go through the hassle of writing in Google Docs and then submitting later if I experience writer’s flow while being bored on the bus?
Also, the mobile application is kind of buggy for me. The notifications NEVER update. I feel like it statically updates once every four hours instead of updating in real time. Does the application do that for anyone else but me? All my other applications work fine, and I have a very nice phone!
Oh, and selecting comment replies is annoying but you never see the context. So oftentimes the responses to your comment might not make sense.
With that being said, however, I feel like Medium has done a lot of things right.
They don’t seem to be gravitating toward a social media function. I used to think that maybe a news feed would be kind of cool. It would give more personal insight into the lives of writers.
But upon further meditation on the topic, I’m happy Medium is the way it is. Imagine a private message function. Imagine all the sleazeballs sliding into your dms. Ugh. I think I speak for all women when I say the absence of a dm is a great thing.
I do think maybe a nice function would be to link a story you like to your own profile page. Then you could show support to writers you really like. It’d be a win-win situation.
But, I’m really just happy with the way it is now. I’m so tired of invasive social media.
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