* The software: Medium somehow managed to make majority-plain-text articles slow to consume in modern web browsers, negating decades' worth of web browser optimizations.
* The culture: Medium is overrun with self-promoting "thought leader" types.
Agreed. The comment section on Medium is also buggy as hell. Its always jumping around up and down. How this simple functionality is not “solved” yet is beyond me.
* The software: Medium somehow managed to make majority-plain-text articles slow to consume in modern web browsers, negating decades' worth of web browser optimizations.
* The culture: Medium is overrun with self-promoting "thought leader" types.