News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Prison Gothic: The criminal record written on Hong Kong’s road signs.

Re:Prison Gothic: The criminal record written on Hong Kong’s... by fred_is_fred on Saturday July 13, 2019 @11:45AM (#20428584)
I guess Medium has finally started requiring an account: "Keep the story going. Sign up for an extra free read." I can't figure out why people use this site for publishing things.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Prison Gothic: The criminal record written on Hong Kong’s... by a012 on Sunday July 14, 2019 @05:33AM (#20432582)
It's simplified: people need the SEO leverage of Medium instead of running your own website and SEO optimization (it takes time). Otherwise I don't see any else advantage of Medium. For the reader, there's an advice is to use reader mode on browsers, but Medium is limiting a few _free_ articles you can read.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Prison Gothic: The criminal record written on Hong Kong’s... by tinus_hn on Sunday July 14, 2019 @05:50AM (#20432629)
On iOS the reader view shows pixelated low resolution versions of the images.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Prison Gothic: The criminal record written on Hong Kong’s... by asutekku on Sunday July 14, 2019 @08:07AM (#20432987)
Those are the thumbnails and you may end up seeing them with a subpar connection. The site lazy-loads the images.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Prison Gothic: The criminal record written on Hong Kong’s... by quickthrower2 on Sunday July 14, 2019 @05:58PM (#20436409)
Yep don’t publish on Medium, instead publish on your own domain, or if not use github pages or dev.to or similar
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Prison Gothic: The criminal record written on Hong Kong’s... by wongmjane on Sunday July 14, 2019 @05:32AM (#20432573)
This particular post is paywalled (it has the star next to the date) so the author/publisher can monetize it
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Prison Gothic: The criminal record written on Hong Kong’s... by inferiorhuman on Sunday July 14, 2019 @01:49PM (#20434736)
It loaded fine for me without a medium account. The images took a while to load though.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Prison Gothic: The criminal record written on Hong Kong’s... by wazoox on Sunday July 14, 2019 @09:37AM (#20433282)
Open it in a private window, it works fine.
[ Parent | on HN ]