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Much of content is very poor -- pseudo-science, crackpots and soap-boxes. There are a few quality authors, but for the most part you you should give no credence unless you know the subject, and even then double check it. Certainly not worth the subscription. For it to survive they need to start applying editorial quality control.

I took a look at Medium and the content is really disappointing. Looks like just another social media application and not really for real writers. All hype on pseudo popular topics and no real content worth even reading. Not sure who judges the content, but it is disappointing to say the least. I was expecting to see junior or senior writers but instead all I see is social media jargon. Sad what the world has come to.

Medium started to show its articles only to members with paid subscriptions since a couple of weeks ago. So, it is useless to non-paying members. Then, it has a large network of sites --I don't know if they belong to it or not-- that publish the biginning of its articles --as a bait-- and direct the reader to Medium.com to read the whole articles, that is, they do themselves exactly what Medium itself does.

All the information was wrong. Highly inaccurate and done poorly. The short summary of James Watt's life looked like it was written by AI and encompassed barely half of his life and none of his legacy. The title was 'James Watt Quotes — The Man Who Invented the Steam Engine | Quote Homes' but you would have to scroll down half a page before actually seeing the quotes, none of them actually being spoken by James Watt. The first quote was spoken by James G. Watt, a completely different person to James Watt. The other quotes were not related in the slightest. Will never use again.

Medium used to offer a few free articles each day, but now only the beginnings of articles are visible unless you become a member. As the world moves towards a free flow of information, Medium is taking a step backwards by making information exclusively to those who can afford membership. How disappointing!

They're so awful! The content used to be viewable for free and it was a huge thing on the internet. I used to enjoy writing here. Now, everything is behind a paywall! The articles are often not even that good because there's no barrier to entry. Stop with the annoying "teaser" articles! All it's doing is making me avoid any medium article in general. God you guys are dumb.

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I'm a developer and I went from a regular paying subscriber to avoiding medium articles like the plague. For every tech question you get multiple medium articles coming up in google, but the overwhelming majority of them fails to be more than very a promising title with the most beginner level information they can get away with, while I guess, still earning for the clicks & scroll throughs. The occasional worthy article you find likely gets blocked by the paywall coming up, because of the amount of drivel you've already clicked that month. This is where one should start paying forward for the occasional/few exceptions, according to their business model - but still saves time and frustration to just skip them through in the search results (still made harder by medium also running under personalised domain names).