Interesting stuff, but is there a more obnoxious way to tell a story than in a twitter thread? I was hoping that Medium was starting to solve this problem, but clearly not everyone has adopted it.
Usually I hate this format, but given the ratio of text to images, I don't really think the "tweetstorm" style got in the way. Each tweet was atomized to reveal a bit more of his story in a well-paced manner.
i don't see the problem. the content is there, it's linear, and i don't have to deal with all medium's obnoxious popups and desperate pleas to install their app or create an account.
At least it wasn’t the email from a relative that’s been forwarded so many times you can’t read the subject and the content is indented 86 times.
THOUGHT YOUD LIKE THIS ONE.
What does Medium do that the million other blog services don't in this respect?
Not look like crap?
It annoys the crap out of non-logged in users!
Yes, Medium starts with a modal nag screen, then has a sticky header and footer which breaks paging (Mac/Chrome). Medium has totally lost any claim to being better for readability.
Also they still haven't figured out consistent urls.
and users who don't pay
Gets used by people whose articles I want to read, mostly.
For a second, I thought the problem in question was 'finding a more obnoxious way to tell a story than in a twitter thread'.
I look at it glass half full. I found one of the few Twitter accounts worth following.
Good one. And revisiting it now, I think it makes sense, and it must have taken some doing to post, considering he'd have to do it in reverse chronological order.
This is much more readable than Medium's 5 lines per page style for me.