slightly off-topic but i hope a UX person from medium would stumble upon this. medium posts have a terrible UX -- for me at least. i tend to set my fonts to be 125%-150% larger. it gives me an easy-to-read feeling on most blogs. especially when fonts are chosen carefully. but this breaks medium blogs so bad i often gave up on many articles. the header usually takes 40% of the viewport height. and there's always a "get updates" footer which also takes about 20%. so yes... what you care about fits in less than half the space. and on posts with many big pictures, it just gets worse.

btw, my phone also has larger fonts but the reading experience is so much better! but ofc that too is ruined by the constant nagging about getting the "real app" (when all i did is click on your own digest which opened in the browser...).

i mean i understand why you guys are doing all that but i certainly share the sentiment of OP here that the combination of all that makes medium look somehow annoying...