The "pardon the interruption" modal is the only one that I have ever seen.
And it's not immediate, there's time enough for your eyes to adjust to the content of interest before that modal pops up. It's as if it's designed for maximum obtrusiveness.
The experience is further degraded by a header and footer that not only take up significant screen real estate but also only seem to exist to also prompt me to sign up.
So that's three obtrusive prompts asking me to sign up - the modal, the header and the footer. This is unique in that the annoyance has a depth of redundancy.
Re:Ending our Medium integration
by vertex-four on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @06:10PM
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Not quite unique - Reddit’s mobile experience is similarly full of misleading and redundant prompts to sign up.
Try old.reddit.com - it was originally created for users who want to revert to the old desktop layout but it has an additional, unintended feature: even on mobile, it maintains the desktop layout without switching to the mobile site (note: it is not responsive so you will have to zoom - but personally I prefer zooming compared to the nagware "features" of the mobile site).
Re:Ending our Medium integration
by quantum_magpie on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @10:22PM
(#19042030)
You can use i.reddit.com on mobile, it's even better.
Thank you! I didn’t know that!
Re:Ending our Medium integration
by colemickens on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @01:12PM
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I really don't want to live in a dystopia where basic text content from random companies, startups, blogs, etc can't be read without being subjected to a startup's conversion flow.
I can't believe that I could get free cPanel/PHP/wordpress hosting when I was a teenager, and people will live with a fullscreen nag ad for their company blog 17 years later.
Re:Ending our Medium integration
by colemickens on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @03:37PM
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As always, silent downvotes for pointing out illogical group-think behavior. Never change. Heh, maybe it's startup hustler types that think intentionally-delayed, fullscreen ads are the pinnacle of innovation and hacker culture. Anything to make a buck.
Re:Ending our Medium integration
by MarsAscendant on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @01:55PM
(#19038045)
Just because it's easy to get rid of, doesn't mean it should be there in the first place.
There's a lot more to say about such practices, but that's the gist of it.
Re:Ending our Medium integration
by stochastic_monk on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @02:24PM
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I can’t highlight/select text without it getting all hyperactive on me. I just want to read an article.
Yes, it is slightly annoying, but it is extremely easy to dismiss. Unlike the nag screens at many sites you don't have to find and click an 'x' in some weird location. It goes away if you click anywhere on the page outside the nag screen.
It also goes away if you hit ESC on the keyboard. (I don't know if other keys also dismiss it too. I've only tried ESC).
Furthermore, also unlike many other sites, it comes up right away rather than waiting for you to get into the article and then interrupting you. So it is click on a Medium link, get shown the nag screen immediately if it is going to be shown at all, and then hit ESC or click somewhere and it goes away.