I know it's shit on Medium day for some reason on HN. I admit that I just don't understand why people would be so up in arms about a $5 subscription. Like, just don't read it? But also, many of us are professional programmers and $5 to get the answer we're looking for is completely trivial. If you keep getting sent to Medium then that's a sign.

In any case, the reality of Medium is that it's a very big platform and some of what's on it is shit and some is great. And that's just the nature of platforms.

But as a publisher there, I do know that they are giving more money than they've ever announced publicly to authors and that every month their investment in quality goes up. Essentially, every new subscriber puts more money in their budget which draws in a higher caliber of author. And on top of that, there's more and more editorial work going on there which is what is necessary to bring articles up to the standard you might find in books.