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FWIW, Medium doesn’t have login walls and hasn’t for a long time. Stories are either paywalled or they aren’t (author’s choice). This link is not paywalled and doesn’t require login.

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Last I checked (not super recently) there was a login wall that popped up after you’ve seen X articles that the authors have chosen to put behind the login wall.

Also, if an author wants an article to be eligible for inclusion in aggregated publications, they have to put it behind the login wall. It’s quite possible my info is outdated; happy to learn what the current state of affairs is if things have changed.

Medium absolutely has login walls. Scroll past a couple of paragraphs and there it is.

That’s a paywall, which is what I said above.

It's not a paywall, it's a "member-only" story, hence a login wall.

I'm not sure where the disconnect is. What do you think the difference is? I don't see one. Membership requires payment, hence it is a paywall. Also, there is no paywall or membership wall on this story that I submitted.

It’s baffling that the CEO of Medium doesn’t know how their product works from the outside. Perhaps logging out of the website would reveal the full-page login-wall pop-ups on this article, as others in this thread have pointed out.

Thanks for explaining and being specific. I did do that when this thread started, opening the article in an incognito window. It’s a modal. Dismiss it.

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