I mean, you don’t have to do anything special with text, it was designed to look fine by default. You had one job: don’t mess it up.

Every time you select text an annoying popup shows up. And if you accidentally click it (which is really easy to do because it pops up right under your cursor) you’ll be redirected to the login page (and lose your reading position) because God forbids unauthenticated users would try to do anything with their platform.

So scroll, but do not touch. In spite of the fact that it’s a plain freaking text.

But maybe that popup is useful? I don’t know. Take me, for example. I’m perfectly capable of posting links and quotes on Twitter without any popup menus (and without converting them into an image first). In fact, popup menu makes it harder for me because I can’t safely select text and adjust selection anymore.

And yes, it does attach an image of you selecting a text on Medium instead of just quoting the text. What a mess.

This is an image attached here, not a text quote

But the misadventures do not end here. If anyone decides to blog on Medium regularly, there’s no way to follow them through RSS. I mean Medium does serve RSS, but they serve it with replies and it turns the whole idea into a non-usable mess. You just get random phrases with no context in your feed instead of articles: