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Re:Renewing Medium’s focus by wyoh on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @06:23PM (#13323098)
> I just don't get why people consider Medium to be so remarkable or innovative.

Medium managed to make normal the act of downloading around 1,500 KiB of javascript and 500 KiB of CSS in order to simply read a text blogpost.

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Re:Renewing Medium’s focus by fuzzfactor on Saturday January 07, 2017 @11:12PM (#13348194)
Unfortunately, this is the reason for so many users that websites like this will never actually be worthwhile regardless of how "normal" or unavoidable they become.
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