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Comment by wooque | Hacker News Reader

>You have 1 free member-only story left this month. Sign up for Medium and get an extra one for a love of God stop using Medium

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Medium is really the worst reading experience. Trying to prevent me from selecting and copying text?

This especially drives me nuts because I use text selection to help with reading on ultra-wide pages when I scroll so I don't lose my place. I hate when I can't select text.

Medium won't even render on my old iPad. Just crashes the browser tab on load. I seriously don't know how bad your tech must be if you can't reliably deliver a page of text.

Is there an objectively better (in every way) alternative to Medium?

Not for me (I host me own), but for the next time it comes up. I don’t want to tell people “don’t use Medium” without an alternative to suggest.

Ghost, or Wordpress, or just write some markdown or html. Honestly it doesn't need to be better in every way to be better.

GitHub pages with Hugo:

https://gohugo.io/hosting-and-deployment/hosting-on-github/

Ghost and Wordpress aren't free. Medium is.

Both are free. As for hosting, Wordpress has a free hosting option.

Writing on a piece of paper and throwing it to the wind?

Seriously, though, if you have an inch of computing skills, any of the static site generators combined with a free tier CDN like Netlify. The most popular generators are pretty easy to use.

But perhaps I'm underestimating how hard that actually is.

I don't think you're underestimating how hard it is, but you are overestimating 99% of web writer's tech skills.

The whole point of medium is anyone can go write without any.

I still hate it, but that's why it continues to exist.

Most other non-paywalled websited are better by definition. It's blocked-from-reading vs. reading an article.

Disable cookies for Medium, I have "2 free member-only stories left" forever this way.

Better yet, disable cookies for every website not explicitly whitelisted.

Is there a way to do this natively on Firefox, Chrome or with ublock.

Yes, with uMatrix. Its like ublock but much more configurable. In one dimension you have cookies, images, js, xmlhttprequest, frames, etc; in another dimension you have domain, subdomain, TLD of the site URL; and in the third dimension you have domains that your current site is connected to. Each is configurable at different levels.

It is archived though. The developed stopped working on it I believe

The other way is with the Multi Account Containers, Temporary Containers, and Containerize addons. Make permanent containers for sites where you want to allow cookies to be saved. Let everything else open in temporary containers. Shortly after closing the temporary tab, all cookies (and local storage, etc) for that tab get deleted. Permanent containers keep their data. Containerize lets you add matching rules to URLs without having to visit that URL in a GUI. Handy for redirects.

I use Vivaldi, but on most browsers there is an "Accept Cookies" setting that is tri-state: All, Session Only and Never (third-party cookies is a parallel setting). You can change it to "Never" then set up site-specific exceptions for the sites you do want to allow cookies on, e.g. Hacker News.

I use temp containers on firefox, set it up to automatically open a temp container for medium based articles.

But yeah, fucke medium

As soon as I see medium in the URL I pull the CMD W trigger

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