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Re:Medium is not the home for your ideas by alicemaz on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @01:56AM (#23914315)
yea, it's actually surprising how heavy it is given it's all to provide a veneer of minimalism and simplicity. I run qutebrowser on musl, which is as you might guess not the most stable web experience, but one funny side effect is it makes me acutely aware of what sites are simple and what ones do too much. the three worst sites, that consistently 100% of the time freeze the tab they're opened in, are reddit wapo and medium
Re:Medium is not the home for your ideas by realusername on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @02:11AM (#23914387)
Yes there's a massive contrast between their minimalist and slick brand and their actual platform which is one of the heaviest blogging platform.

I'm not sure what it does really but you can achieve a similar design with a few Kb of CSS.