Medium

Matthew Udanoh

Medium is an important forum; one of the last bastions to find longer form content on a broad range of topics. I use it often. What's baffling is how they underwhelm so badly on technology. For example, basic functionality such as the ability to search archives is missing. What is the point of saving articles you will later struggle to find? Millions of articles have been published but the recommendation engine throws up a tiny subset and repeats the same articles as you scroll down. Do better!

Ray Parker

First, when a publishing platform alienates its content providers, it's a bad sign. Once again, Medium has done that. Next, recent changes have improved the usability slightly, but it's still challenging to locate recent content written by those you follow. There are silly UI flaws, the embedded browser seriously sucks, and when a platform designed for reading does *not* allow me to choose my font, they are lacking in more ways than I could describe. The sun is setting on Medium.

Chris Martin - Savor The Passion

Was initially pretty ok with the app. Wasn't fantastic, was far from awful, but now that the ability to write a story has been removed as a content creator I literally have no reason to have the app & will be deleting when I'm done writing this review. My request: Make a second app for content creators. Great opportunity to tailor towards the user with greater focus. If writing comes back I'd love a notification. Thanks!

Lindsey Middleton

I just tried to draft two articles I have in mind. And I can't. Why? They removed the ability to draft articles on mobile. How many people seriously spend all their writing time at a computer? Because I can't manage that luxury! I'm in a PhD program and have a baby. When I have quick ideas, I love to get them down as soon as possible, so I don't lose them. Sure, I could email stuff to myself, use a different app, etc. But it's a hassle, and other apps are distracting, or not writing oriented.

Derek Anderson

I really like mediums articles but this app is awful when it comes to small screens. You can zoom in, you can't rotate the screen for landscape reading. It seems to be designed for tablets and tablets alone. Anyways been a paid subscriber for a long time but this is just getting annoying... and really questions if mediums really that good if they can't fix a simple usability issue.

Brandon Rechten

This app has becoming almost unusable. Bugs abound. Can't save articles anymore. Formatting is completely broken - all comments are shown as a wall of text without paragraph breaks. Editing doesn't work half the time. Recent activity can't be loaded. It's a complete mess. Will probably have to cancel my membership since half the features don't work.

Serenity Miller

Buggier and buggier. Every time I log in, I run into something else that isn't working. Now after publishing stories and comments since August, I get an error message saying I need a verified email address in order to publish. That message sends me to my settings, where I have no option to re-verify anything; just sit there browsing my same account info that I've been using since August. I love the browser version of the Medium website on my laptop, but the app's becoming increasingly unusable.

Fizzy Wind

Overall the app is functional and performs basic uses beyond reading. But the notifications don't work. I have to manually check or look in my email to see if I have a notification. Please fix this! I also don't like how it takes a whole day for them to update. Also it's difficult to navigate something as some as going back to your original response from someone responding to you.

A Google user

The actual writing content varies but is mostly very good. The app itself has a nice presentation but it's fiddly when it comes to making a reading list or archiving things. sometimes when you archive something, or remove it from archives, the change doesn't stick and it goes back to where it was before. GUI is nice and intuitive, settings are easy to use and helpful to improve the reading experience. Just needs to improve the archive function.