Might be against the rules, but here's a "me too."

I've been avoiding Medium even before they became so blatantly commercial. Forcefully urging me to create an account and log in just to read a bloody article? No thanks.

the trick is open devtools click 'application' and click clear all site data. Then refresh, no nags etc...

The site looks lean and clean without javascript.

I see medium and I don't go because most of the content on it tends to be very opinionated

I use the "Make Medium Readable Again" browser extension because of this. Firefox also has a reader view which I use on a lot of other sites.

https://makemediumreadable.com

This post has more votes than medium's ...

I usually hate these kinds of comments but I have to: Please check out dev.to. It's a minimal, fast, developer focussed blogging platform. It's open source, and quite active.

In 3 months time: Off-topic: I see 'dev.to' and I don't tap because I can't face the pop-ups and nag modal. Sad to think, at one time Medium used to be the cleanest reading experience.

All those true, but the site is terrible for knowledge discovering.9 out of 10 articles are garbage, written solely because now it seems every job applicant MUST have a blog.

I really liked dev.to last year, but now the posts are really repetitive, apart from being mainly front-end discusion, I want representation as a back-end dev :C

Dev.to has a lot of promise, and I visit there occasionally.

I still prefer individual websites to blogging platforms, but Dev.to is the best such thing I've come across.

I feel if people/companies could not set up their own sites or blogs for their technical opinion, then that opinion may be less useful to me.

Kill sticky is really simple, but works really well on Medium too: https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/