MediumReviews of medium.com

I have been a subscriber for a few months, I am now very concerned now because my email has been breached and anf found on the darkweb, when I checked it on a trusted website that looks for breaches it came up with one of the writers on the medium platform having been the victim of pay or leak, cyber crime, I dont know how they had my email, I havent even read their articles, but it must have been through Medium as I have no other connection with them.

Overall, it's usable, but the experience has been mixed. Some features seem unfinished, and I had so spend extra time figuring everything out. It works, but I had higher expectations.

I tried using Medium for a while, and it’s honestly just okay. There are some good articles here and there, but most of the time I end up hitting the paywall, which gets annoying pretty fast. The app itself looks nice and simple, but finding actually interesting content isn’t always easy unless it’s already popular. It kind of feels repetitive after a while. Not a terrible platform, but I don’t really think it’s worth paying for. Could be better.

Not What I Expected Medium started out great, but now it feels overly commercial. Too many locked articles and not enough unique content. As a writer, it’s frustrating when your blogs don’t even show up on Google. Not ideal for serious creators.

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.

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.

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!

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.