Offtopic, but when did medium start with a soft-paywall? 3 articles per month?
http://www.niemanlab.org/2017/10/starting-today-anyone-who-p...
But I think this is the first paywalled Medium article I've actually seen (and I think it was free when I came across it on r/math a few days ago)... but I've developed a bit of a reflexive avoidance of Medium content anyway.