MediumReviews of medium.com

I read a single article on robotics and its clear the author or chat-bot that wrote it had no clue what they were talking about. total waste of time.

Bait and Switch. Medium said I could finish article with a free account. After signing up it said the author has made this available only to premium members.

High quality and detailed content, at least in ML / AI, frequently with code. More accessible and more practical than academic research papers. The only reason why the reputation is so abysmally low here is that it is a paywalled site marketed as a free one. An account may be free, but its completely useless until you buy a monthly or annual subscription... Having said that there is free preview of a certain number of articles given for free in each period of time (rate limiting), as a well as the top percentage of each article. Call it clickbait or freemium, this is what it is - a preview functionality they use for marketing their site contents.

They are just like every other social media platform. They are quick to judge a reported comment before finding out the necessary reasons behind the comment... basically 1984 everyone into reading things about technology... and barely anything else... and there is far more subjects being writen that i am interested in... and rarely show up... i used medium primarily to read as a pass time... but that became stale when i ended up reading the same crap. And slowly devolved into a larger pile of crap while not even taking into consideration i was interested in music theory...

What part of I don't want email s do u scum don't understand

I had never heard of Medium until I subscribed to an author via his Patreon account. Immediately I was bombarded with stories from Medium. Turns out he publishes on Medium (which claims he has given them exclusive rights.) I am going to cancel my Patreon subscription to that person (and tell him why) and then I guess the only way to get rid of Medium is to put it in my junk box.

I agree with everyone one here about the shady business practices of Medium. They will let read an article and just when you are getting to the good part, they will block you from reading the rest of the article. However, if you just give them your email address you can read the rest of the article for free. But this is a lie because as soon as you try and read the rest of the article it blocks you saying the only way you can is if you upgrade your account meaning pay. If you want us to pay, just say that upfront without the lies about being able to read the article for free

Unbelievable and continuos requests of upgrading, only to read easy articles even if interesting. Ridiculous