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Medium: Read & Write Stories App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024
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✓ Fix the back gesture please!Great app with great content but why is the back gesture of swiping left to right so clumsy and takes at least 4-5 attempts before it works? It should be seamless like in Apple News or Flipboard. The gesture of going back to previous page is clumsy and takes effort to make it work. I sometimes give up and use the back button on the top left which can be a bit uncomfortable on a big phone like iPhone X..Version: 3.79
✓ Change is awful???The app has changed and it’s almost unusable. If I’m on an article I can no longer click the author and see their other works if I got there through a pub. Similarly I can no longer see what else the publication has to offer if I got to the article via the author. Why? Sometimes I click on things and a blank page comes up. It literally renders the app unusable, because I need to use the desktop version to see simple things like publication requirements for submission..Version: 4.29
✓ Why is this this company allowed to exist?Any company that posts articles to the web that results in google searches where you read part of it, before abruptly being told you need to sign in and pay to finish reading the rest of the article is clearly a company without morals or scruples. It's deceptive, dishonest, and a shady business model. You wanna charge me money to read something? Tell me that BEFORE i start reading. I spend a lot of money on books. I understand the labour value of the writing. But to charge money for cheap little articles that anyone could write which are designed to do nothing but hook someone into reading to get their quick money is not a company who has rightly earned anybody's money. Medium are just con-artists and a menace to the world wide web, and should not be allowed to exist in the form that they do. They are the enemy of the information age and people should speak out against them in support of freedom of information, the evolution of human knowledge and overall business ethics..Version: 4.186
✓ Worst change to a great appI love Medium, and used it frequently, until they made the worst possible change to the app… Medium recently removed what I consider to be it’s most important feature: composing stories on the mobile app. This is a WRITING platform, but you can no longer write with it!? What? For me, I spend a lot of time driving and taking care of my kids. I don’t have time to sit down at my laptop, and I need to be able to jot down ideas as they come to me, or I will lose them by the time I get back to my computer. I do almost all of my drafting on my phone using voice recognition, which made it incredibly easy to get your thoughts out of your head and onto the page. They claim that the change was made due to technical challenges of maintaining the future in the app. I simply cannot fathom why an app/company of Medium’s size and resources could have technical challenges with a basic and fundamental feature that is included in virtually any other app with text capabilities. Every social network app, every word processing app, can capture longform text from their mobile device. How is this challenging? Medium, if you are listening, bring it back! Without this fundamental feature it is nothing more than a glorified RSS feed. You have one of the best writing platforms out there, and I love using your product, but it is no longer useful to me if I can’t compose from my phone. Truly disappointed in what was once a 5-star, awesome product..Version: 4.74
✓ Should be improvedI am a paid member of the app. It lacks lot of features that are present on the website. While I understand the two cant provide the same experience, the app can come close to the website. For eg, It doesnt show the claps on my articles. Whereas others can see that..Version: 3.106
✓ Good articles when you can find themI decided to subscribe because I read a few articles that I found interesting. However, now that I’m actively looking for articles to read I’m finding very few that are well written. There are so many typos and grammatical errors! And a lot of the articles seem like just fillers..Version: 3.123
✓ Lost ability to publish on mobileThanks to a ridiculous update in March 2022, the mobile app is basically redundant as users can no longer write stories and view drafts in the mobile app. Ill admit it’s far easier to write content with a computer keyboard, but so often I used the mobile app to note story ideas and actually write them. An incredibly thoughtless decision on Medium’s part. From customer support: As of March 2022, the Medium app no longer supports editing and publishing stories. You can still publish your stories on Medium using a desktop web browser..Version: 4.73
✓ This review is for the appI just upgraded and am very confused by the new UX. There are a few major issues: 1. Naturally, people use the app to post comments on each others pieces and have conversations. The app does not allow for you to view the back and forth exchange you are having on an article. The most you get is the ability to view an isolated response back to your comment via notifications. Meaning, you are expected to remember the original conversation/comment you made. A huge oversight. 2. You get a notification that someone clapped on your article. You want to see said person’s profile. I have tried clicking on the clap button under my article…. The app no longer reveals the list of people who have engaged. I also can’t click on the profile of the person when I get a notification of a clap. Meaning, I have to MANUALLY search the person’s name. Am I missing something or is this another huge oversight?.Version: 4.61
✓ UI issueI love much of the content and the platform for writers concept however the UI is frustrating when reading an article when reading and scrolling an article because links are very similar in colour to the text and if one is touched at the start of a scroll gesture it is treated as a click and the link opens, so the user needs to pay careful attention to where you touch to scroll No feedback feature within the app the clap is auto repeating and I did not figure out how to undo mistaken claps Putting these UI features or design decisions aside the content and the article suggestion emails, writer funding are all great.Version: 3.99
✓ This is a review of the APP itself, not the website.I gave this title, because as I read other reviews, I think people are not necessarily reviewing the APP itself, but rather the content on the website. My review, is of the actual app. I decided recently to give Medium a try, to see if I can write some useful articles and perhaps even generate a bit of side income. I wrote an article on the app and then published it. After publishing, I noticed a few small tweaks I would like to make. So, I selected the article and chose “edit” mode. Trouble is, the functionality to edit is VERY limited. For example, I selected an icon to see what it does and it added a Python text box to my article. Now I can’t get rid of it! It should not be so difficult to figure out how to add or subtract something from the article. And where is the back button?? Lousy UI/UI design! A simple editor is a good idea. I get that. But so basic that you don’t have a back button or a delete function to remove unintentionally added features? If you do have them, I am confused as to where they are. Fix these things and I will improve my rating..Version: 4.130
✓ So far so goodI've been writing majority of my life and recently taking it up in blog posting on here and Reddit. Come find me flyinghightraffic 😏😉 No but really, enjoying using it apart from minor hiccups on my part by not letting the App access all my photos when trying to upload a picture, the App wouldn’t then let me pick any photo! Either way, glad it's sorted now, lesson learnt!!! Much Love Sam 😍🙏❤️🔥🤠.Version: 4.130
✓ TrashThis is one of the worst apps I’ve ever used, not in the sense that it often breaks or glitches or fails, but rather in that the design decisions that have been made are so ludicrously anti-user that it at times feels deliberately malicious. You get a notification that several people have commented on your post. Would you like to see those comments? Well just click that notification and it will take you there. I’m sorry, that’s how it SHOULD work. How it does work is as follows: you tap the notification and it takes you to a screen displaying the different people who have responded. If you click on any of those icons, you will be taken not to that comment but to that person’s profile page. Yup. There’s all kinds of just fundamentally dumb stuff like this. The final straw though came with the latest update which removed the ability to see any of your existing drafts or even edit your work. Let me be clear here: THIS APP IS LESS FUNCTIONAL THAN SIMPLY USING YOUR BROWSER. I halfway suspect it is some kind of social experiment meant to test whether people are so dumb that they will use an app without any regard to its quality. The answer appears to be yes..Version: 4.70
✓ StefaniWhile I did enjoy the content on this site, I have to recommend ppl to not PAY for a membership. I bought the membership & the first month was fine- when it came time to renew then came the problem. First my membership disappeared & all of a sudden I was back to “free” status, limited to how much I could read. So I checked to make sure I was charged, sure was, charged TWICE actually. After attempting to contact someone three times through the app with no response, I went to the website & sent another help request. Finally I received a reply. I sent in everything they asked for, receipts, screenshots etc. still I cannot access the content I paid for & have not been given a refund, just another request for “the bottom portion of my membership email “ thank goodness I never delete my emails because that was sent way back in October!! So as much as I want to give them 5 stars for the reading content, their customer service is so terrible that I cannot recommend anything other than the free membership. Please do not give them any money or you will be facing a huge headache along with paying for the content everyone else gets for free!!!! BOO!!!!.Version: 3.66
✓ Constantly CrashingI used to love this app, and used it regularly - both as a reader and a writer. But the latest few updates seem exceptionally buggy - the app keeps freezing, chewing up battery, and then crashes. I also don’t like the look of it in recent updates - my profile has flattened out, so it is impossible to distinguish my published stories, from random comments, from applause given to other people’s stories. It is becoming harder to find stories from the writers I follow, and more and more I am pushed stories on the basis of what Medium thinks is popular, rather than what I have indicated an interest in reading. Using this app is now more of a frustrating than pleasurable experience. Please fix it up!.Version: 3.40
✓ Medium great but App disappointing.It’s easy to get the App and the platform confused. The App I find frustrating, Medium less so. I use an iPad for my writing but so many features on Medium are unavailable. The formatting often is inconsistent and I have found no way of copying a link to a draft article to seek its submission to a publication, meaning I have published articles unintentionally which will then not be considered by a publication. It would be so helpful if the iPad experience mirrored the experience on a computer..Version: 4.138
✓ Conceptually good, functionally bad.I thought this was exactly what I was looking for, on the go articles that I could read anywhere, any time. It’s the anywhere anytime that’s the problem. There are some very good articles but I need a source that will allow me to read offline on my iPad, as often on train or air travel is when it comes out. The fact that I cannot save any articles for offline use renders the whole subscription useless for me. If it changes, I may come back..Version: 4.85
✓ Completely USELESSIn March 2022, Medium REMOVED the ability to write & edit stories on the go using this app. As a result, this app has just become COMPLETELY USELESS to anyone who used it primarily for being able to write & edit on the go. I understand medium wanted to consolidate functionality & look, but with this move you have just completely TANKED you app. I'm literally going to delete it, as I have zero use for it now. Needing to do all my writing & editing through the desktop session means I'll be looking for another platform to showcase my writing. Bye bye Medium, you will likely now see a DROP in people using your platform, not a rise..Version: 4.74
✓ Boring anti-white propagandaAs a graphic designer, Medium app has a lot of useful articles for people in my field. However it is full of the same sjw propaganda nonsense that should only ever exist in nothing but twitter. There’s no use blocking these articles as the company insists that you see them wether you like it or not. App has been uninstalled, unless i find an article that i need to see on the web i’d happily read without being forced to hate my own skin colour. Until then, i’d recommend to friends and collegues other non biased media. It’s a shame.Version: 4.22
✓ Apple exchange rate is profiteeringThis isn’t a negative review for the Medium app. The app is great and works well. Rather I’ve had a gut full of being ripped off by Apple. The app is $5 USD and I’m charged $7.50 AUD. This is an exchange rate of 50c to the Australian dollar when it has been in the averaging 70c’s for the past 5 years. I’m close to unsubscribing and it will be because of Apple not the quality of Medium..Version: 4.61
✓ Don’t use!This app is literally a shameless personal info thief and seller.Version: 4.178
✓ Subscription doesn’t workI did subscribe $5 per month subscription but I still can’t see the content. It’s says Upgrade. When I click upgrade I get a message you are already subscribed..Version: 3.65
✓ Good content, poorly deliveredSome of the best comet out there, but the app is terrible! Why do you blend 7 year old articles with ones from last week? Why can’t you sort by “latest” and why can’t I set preferences for just receiving new content in my feed and emails. Makes no sense getting an article with current topics or things to action based on trends/markets/world news years later, plus gets confusing if you read by error without checking the date first. Sorry to the content writers, the one star isn’t for you, this is just a review of the app. Could be so much better!.Version: 4.139
✓ App closes all the timeLately the app closes while I’m scrolling thru the articles. Frustrating. I pay to read these articles and there are days that it crashes so much I give up..Version: 4.2
✓ Not what it says on the boxI paid for Medium for a year, but decided not to re-subscribe as what initially seems like loads of amazing articles, turns out to be just lots of amazing titles much of the time. Additionally, I have discovered since then, that articles (particularly around Covid), that are advertised as being “free for everyone to read thanks to our paying members”, are not in fact readable without a subscription. I contacted Medium about this to ask what that was all about, but they never bothered to reply..Version: 4.11
✓ Let us WRITE articles on the mobile app.I am missing the feature to write articles on the mobile app. Don’t see why this was removed, writing articles is fine on mobile and probably even enjoyable on an iPad with a keyboard. I dislike the paywalls for the premium membership, very limiting for articles I can read and often have to get around it by visiting in Private Browsing etc. Otherwise, a nice app with great content..Version: 4.95
✓ Can’t write in the app any moreMedium has such a nice editing experience on an iPad with a Bluetooth keyboard, but now they have disabled writing and editing in the app. Since my main writing device is an iPad and keyboard, it no longer makes no sense for me to write on Medium. Thankfully there seem to be a lot more options these days for writing and publishing on an iPad than when Medium started, including things that will upload to your own site, rather than a third-party platform..Version: 4.73
✓ $5 does not £5 makePricing is a bit obscene for a UK audience considering the bulk of the content is US based and doesn’t really offer solutions to those in the wider world. I find articles in Le Monde more relevant to me than on Medium. It’s nothing more than click bait half the time so why waste money. I would rather go to a newsagents and buy a magazine that doesn’t moan at me for not being connected or wanting money because the bulk of the articles are premium and I can’t seem to work out what’s premium about them, they are no different to any I could find on the web for free especially in regard to the lifestyle things that any national newspaper gives me for free on their websites..Version: 3.82
✓ The same old “ Surprise Me” Stories Over And OverDon’t get me wrong, I really like the app, and the engaging articles that are in it, but sometimes… Just sometimes, I would like to be surprised with a new article, something I have not read before. I remember after first downloading the app, I was always surprised by a new, engaging, sometimes controversial article or topic and I really enjoyed it… Reading through them was great for me. But recently, as in the last three months, whenever I click on the “surprise me“ link, it just takes me to the same old stories I’ve read once, twice &c. And really it’s getting kind of boring! Is there a setting maybe, that I’m not aware of, that really does truly give me a new article every time I click “surprise me”? I would be very happy to raise my star rating on this app to four or five if I can find a way to do this..Version: 3.66
✓ Is this a joke or is there a gas leak in the developers officeYou’re asking for $8 a month for an app that has caps lock forced on and requires you to click shift for every lower case letter you write? I am genuinely bemused as to how such a poor app could even be produced by a trained monkey.Version: 4.114
✓ Membership SubscriptionTo avoid wasting my time and storage space, I researched Medium after I saw the in-app purchases and the ITunes description referenced paid membership being a "perk" and not required to read the articles. After reading two articles, I received a message saying I would have to become a member to read additional articles as my free article limit had been exceeded this month. If those same messages would have appeared in my research instead of after downloading the app, it would have saved me time and now frustration. Maybe I'm clueless or have lived under a rock, but why is there a fee required anyway? It's not a major news publication like their publishing-conglomerate predecessors and they highlight their use of amateur authors which seems to defeat the purpose of a paid subscription? Interesting content, but not enticing enough for a subscription..Version: 3.54
✓ Crashes at launchNot good.Version: 3.4
✓ FPlease don’t start putting a bunch of stupid lists articles on here..Version: 3.110
✓ Needs better content filteringI desperately want to give this app a higher ranking. It provides great content, doesn’t appear to be buggy, and has the basic usability down. However, there are too many articles where the content doesn’t match or support the title, too many articles where the author’s writing exceeded their knowledge, etc. The app fails to allow you to effectively filter down to the good articles. The content needs to be curated. There is an option for each article that says “show less like this”, but no indication of how “like this” is quantified. My fear is that if I click the option on a programming article that is completely incorrect, I will get fewer programming articles rather than fewer incorrect articles. When liking or disliking an article, the user needs to be able to indicate what they liked or disliked about it. At the moment, about 1 in 5 articles live up to the title of their post. That makes this app about 20% effective at delivering on its promise..Version: 4.125
✓ Uses Evil Forum PracticesJust like Quora, when you start reading an article on Medium, you get about a third of the way down and then have to stop reading unless you sign up… so if you’re not willing to sign up out of force then you’ve just wasted a brief moment of your life, but it doesn’t end there. Let’s say you do sign up, and now you’re getting deep into an article you really want to finish, just before it gets to the culminating point, your membership isn’t good enough and now you have to pay, or pay more than you were before. First they bully you into signing up, then they bully you into paying and then bully you again to pay more! For gods sake, why can’t they just lock the article to those who can’t read the whole thing? There’s nothing more annoying than a forum that lets you read something you *might* be interested in, and then once you realise it is interesting, they take away your ability to read, It is absolutely infuriating and I can’t scold them enough, they actually make Quora (with their repeat articles and solitaire ads) look really good by comparison..Version: 4.184
✓ Tags are a massive issueSo when trying to correct some low quality published article I was invited to add tags which I complied with. But when I click post I'm am only then informed that tags cannot contain spaces or other punctuation. A bit late to tell me after I offered a comma separated list of tags which is standard everywhere but on medium apparently. So when I went to just remove the tags after giving up trying to fight with this useless tagging system, it turns out there is no where to remove the tags I put in. Brilliant. Low quality article and a rubbish app to go with it. Waste of my time and money..Version: 3.82
✓ Not a fan of the new UII’ve been a user for about 4 months. I was very accustomed to swiping an article left or right to save or delete it, a very common UX experience in iOS apps. To my unpleasant surprise and confusion, the new update drops you in a new UX experience, one that is decidedly unintuitive. Feedback #1: UX design 101, when changing an applications UX, make it clear to the user, e.g. small pop up that announces the new UX, and a description of what changed. I for one was confused (bad) because my first thought after opening the app was that I must have done something to cause the UX I was now seeing (accidentally swiped up, or swiped with two fingers with knowing). I also quickly learned that the ability to swipe was gone. Feedback #2: The settings link. Do not burry behind a “…” link. After clicking on the profile icon, I mistakenly thought that all I could do were actions associated with story creation. It wasn’t until I clicked on the “…” did I find the settings link. Bug #1: while in settings, there is an option “Application controls”. Finally I thought to myself, this is where I can change the UX to the view that allows swiping. Nope. Clicking on the link doesn’t do anything. Dead link? According to the pics on the App Store, there is an “Investigate” page view which looks like the view that might allow swiping. But for the life of me I could not figure out how to get to that view..Version: 4.29
✓ Only premium content recommendedAfter a while they ONLY recommend premium content... no interesting article are suggested, only premium content. Kind of wondering if I get premium will their algorithm still recommend premium stuff I am not interested in at all?.Version: 3.52
✓ Still has a long way to go in terms of stability.Although it’s really great, there are a few frustrating aspects. 1. Stuff I write just disappears. Images text etc. 2. I’m editing a block and the cursor just jumps to somewhere else one the screen I haven’t tapped to. 3. I can’t do a select all, or drag and select past a paragraph. I love the platform and simplicity but some things just need to work as they should. Now I can’t seem to copy my article link from app..Version: 4.69
✓ The app does not follow normal usabilityI try and login with email and it doesn’t include a space for the password. It asks me to enter my email address then offers to send me a link. Very annoying.Version: 4.62
✓ Asked to pay after reading 3 articles!Used the app less than an hour before being prompted to pay to read more articles! At least let me properly try it out first before trying to charge me. I’ve been using Medium on the web for years and never had to pay to read an article. I understand it costs money to develop apps (I am an iOS developer myself) but seriously, being prompted to pay on opening the 4th article is ridiculous. Hence only 2 stars. As others have suggested, a week’s free trial would give a fair chance to try out the app..Version: 3.89
✓ Time will tellI Like the format. Short fast articles without most the pretentious background explanations and wankery. I’ve got no time for fluff or long-winded stories just to make a simple point. I still haven’t tested the quality of the content posted. I may even subscribe after the trial period..Version: 4.155
✓ Constant Looping Error During e-mail RegistrationAttention App Developers: I ran across an interesting MEDIUM story which led me here to the App Store. I Downloaded the MEDIUM App, then Got to the Login Section which has (3) Registration options (1.Google) (2.Facebook) and (3. Signup with E-mail) I chose (3. Signup with E-mail) After keying “Full Name” and “E-mail” fields I hit submit and Successfully received the confirmation email to my iPhone In-box which then provided the link to Continue / Complete my registration. After clicking that link, it also successfully brought me back to the registration page to complete signup which is where I got the Pop-Up Error Message (ERROR Try Re-Submitting) Tried again, Same ERROR. I’m not trying to beat the App up or the Developers, just passing the technical difficulty details on in the event anyone cares to dissect it and find a solution. Guess I’ll go back and try Google Registration since I don’t have a Farcebook account. 🤞🏻 And if you read all of this YOU ROCK!.Version: 3.80
✓ Quality of articles been on the declineI’ve really enjoyed the app, it’s great, easy to navigate & read, love the dark mode. But lately the quality of articles have been on the decline. Many articles in my feed are similar, no unique content, no originality, catchy titles but don’t deliver. Seems like too many writers are trying to just post without putting in too much efforts & thoughts into it. It’s become rare to find good quality articles..Version: 3.124
✓ Hanging on iOS 13It became slow and unresponsive..Version: 3.99
✓ Great app, but offline reading experience is less than stellarI am a paid Medium subscriber. Totally love the platform and the app. There is just so much good content and UX is very well thought through. One annoying thing that happens often is the reading list doesn’t load when the app is disconnected from the internet. C’mon, guys, this is the whole point of the reading list! Imagine bookmarking 40 articles to read on a 7-hour trans-Atlantic flight without WiFi only to discover the dreaded “something went wrong” message and have 0 articles available for reading. Incredibly frustrating. That’s -1 star. Another thing is that due to lazy loading, the bookmarked articles don’t have images in them unless you have actually opened and read the articles. Sometimes these images are important as they include diagrams, tables and other relevant info. That’s -1 star. Fix these and the app gets 5 stars!.Version: 3.52
✓ Nice app, but offline mode is disappointing!I have read Medium articles on the web and was pleasantly surprised to see there was a mobile app available. When I downloaded, I thought I would give the paid subscription a go - as this would be a game changer for my commutes. After a few days of using it, I still can’t get the offline mode working (I save my articles to my reading list) - either because the UX is tricky and I don’t know how to enable it, or there is a bug, or this isn’t a feature on the app. This was definitely the main reason I signed up for the subscription - please let me know if this is upcoming / possible!.Version: 4.108
✓ Garbage appThis app is terrible. It doesn’t show conversation trees (if you’re involved in a back and forth with someone then expect to keep having to flit between the screens with your posts on and the screens with their posts), and if you write a post that’s longer than a couple of hundred words you’ve a 50-50 chance of it just spontaneously deleting itself when you try to post it. It’s infuriating and I strongly suspect many of the good reviews are fakes. Avoid..Version: 4.24
✓ Rubbish content full of click bait articles“3 types of stocks that will make you wealthier” - Medium’s daily read suggestion that landed in my Notification Center yesterday. Such a catchy title, only to find out the author just lists the three types of stocks you can possibly invest in (101 of investment strategy). Reads like a blunt Wikipedia page. Written by some college kid who is “trying to make it” according to his own description. And I’m paying for this kind of click bait content. All I can say is that Medium is full of rubbish content that it is almost ridiculous. Just invest your money elsewhere please. There’s lots of good content out there..Version: 4.10
✓ Lost my edits to an infinitely scrolling circle iconI give up. The structure of the site is as organised as an oriental bazaar. What's with these stories? Are you really trying to copy Instagram or Snapchat? It also seems to be becoming more of a political echo chamber as time goes on and the final straw is that I just lost 45 minutes of editing on the iPad app with no idea if the copy was saving or any activity occurring. If you can't save people's data and its clunky and it's yet another bubble of orthodox rants then I'm off. Medium seemed to have such promise at first....Version: 3.66
✓ Algorithm is not goodIf I read 1 article my feed is then flooded with similar articles. I don’t want to read articles that are similar. It’s seems difficult to then find different articles. I’m cancelling my subscription, it’s not worth the cost..Version: 3.67
✓ Why I’m deleting the appI enjoyed Medium until the suggestions got so hyper focused that i was basically seeing negative articles on one topic. To make things worse your home feed is mostly premium stories that you can’t read without a sub. (Which I used to have) I stopped subscribing because the of the hyper focusing of suggestions. I am deleting it because now I can’t read most of the stuff on the home screen..Version: 3.66
✓ Unusable for niche interestsThere is lots of great content on medium for my niche interests, and they are all tagged using mediums tags. If have added these tags to my interests on my account, but they never appear in my feed! And there is no way of just looking at stuff that comes under a tag. I get endless articles about generic stuff I have absolutely no interest in, but accessing the things I’m actually interested in is impossible. I am utterly perplexed at the total uselessness of the web app and iPhone / iPad app. I’ve cancelled my medium membership, and am trying to setup an RSS feed to access the medium content I’m interested in. Massive massive fail.Version: 3.6
✓ Great for personal use, not for publicationI love using the app for my own articles and highly recommend it for writers. It makes writing on the go very easy. However, it is not possible to access the submissions for my publication, let alone edit them, which makes managing it while travelling very hard without a computer. I understand that everyone does not need the publication feature, hence, I would be satisfied with a paid add-on feature..Version: 3.48
✓ Meh subscription fee bass ackwardsMaybe charge people $1.00 to publish? Or even more to more established writers. Lol. Limits to how much you can read monthly without subscription - not surprising - but it’s just extra evil when it comes to short essays and words in general 🤷🏻♀️.Version: 3.110
✓ Stop making it hard to cancel the membership with MediumIt is quite distasteful that I have spent way too much time (over 20 minutes) trying to figure out how to cancel my membership with y’all. Once I figure it out, you won’t be seeing me again..Version: 3.75
✓ So close to goodGreat site. Unfortunately the app makes it virtually impossible to copy text. I can only highlight what is currently visible on the screen; any scrolling kills the selection. Even if I can highlight what I want, only rarely does the context menu pop up allowing me to copy that small amount of text. It’s still possible to share an image of the text, but I need it to be searchable. The ability to highlight and comment on portions of the text seems to be part of the interference - these are cute features but they’re interfering with usability, and almost no one seems to use them (except me by accident). I copy clips for myself so I can remember and search what was of interest in an article without having to reread the whole thing. Not being able to copy text defeats the purpose of the app for me, so sadly I’ll be cancelling my subscription. As a reading-only app, I’m sure it’s good..Version: 4.166
✓ Sharing BrokenI've been a (mostly) happy paid member for a while. But the last update has totally broken sharing with other apps. I know you want to keep us in your little walled garden but that's not how I work. Deleted the app after using it since it first came out. Will use the Web version until you break that..Version: 3.60
✓ Why do we have to subscribe to read certain articlesIsn’t the purpose of the app to read articles it is so why do we have to subscribe just to read certain articles many stories on this app are only for members!!!!!! I am not paying for an app which doesn't tell me how much I have to pay but depriving readers of basic functions is just not good enough. It's a shame as there's so much great content on there but if you're not even going to let me esentially use your app without paying for it then it's goodbye. Doesn't even say how much you have to pay. Very very disappointed..Version: 4.156
✓ Keeps crashing on iPadPlease fix this ASAP, otherwise I’d have no choice but to unsubscribe. App keeps crashing on me every time I open an article (takes 2-3 seconds to crash)..Version: 4.35
✓ Awesome AppBut I wish there was better integration to save Data, most apps have caught onto this. It would be great to maybe have a feature where when you bookmark a article to read later it automatically downloads it to your device, for both text and audio... that would make this app perfect in every way!.Version: 3.69
✓ Keep getting redirected to home pageI mostly read articles whilst I’m on the tube. For that reason, there are a lot of interruptions like changing lines etc. during which I need to lock my phone and put it in my pocket. When I open the app, instead of the article I was reading I see the homepage and I usually can’t find the article again. One little bug/oversight but makes the whole app pointless. edit: the app wasn’t suddenly closed. I just locked (as in the thing you do before putting it in your pocket) the phone for 10 minutes. I saw no messages to help me get back to the article..Version: 3.40
✓ Seriously horrible usability, terrible contentI used to love reading content on Medium (I even paid for the subscription), much fresher and creative than the traditional news sources and then came the coronavirus... After that I realized how this is just a type of social media where anyone and everyone can post whatever is in their mind without any criteria or research..Version: 3.117
✓ Tell people what notifications are member only reads.I’m never going to pay for a service that misleads me into using my member only reads because it doesn’t notify me of which notifications are members reads or not. So I end up using my members reads on articles I don’t even want to read because I miss click the notification or just am curious about the article but not enough to use a member read. And 90% of the authors are up their own behinds and are completely bias in what their writing about. Best bet find somewhere else to get legitimate news and information..Version: 4.109
✓ Hard to edit, confusing workflowThe app defaults to an upper case keyboard when editing - meaning you need to manually make each letter lower case. Also uses odd steps (different from website) when publishing a revised edit, such as asking for a new summary. Confusing. Ok for reading though..Version: 4.172
✓ “Hey you read a lot”Why did you start making it almost impossible to tell if it’s a premium content article? I’m sick of them being shoved in my face with the worlds smallest star so you can’t tell until you open it and get trolled by the subscribe screen. One star to match the tiny little annoying hidden stars you use to show premium content. Sick of it, so annoying..Version: 3.18
✓ Amateur hourI’ve read a few interesting articles but most have been amateurish. I could get past weak writing if the content was insightful, but so many articles use the click bait device of list based head lines: 5 ways to.... , 3 reasons why...., 10 essential rules of... and ultimately provide insight we’ve read countless times. As someone in the visual communication field Im struck by the horrid visuals: Writers illustrating their own articles with stick figure drawings or royalty free stock images. Awful stuff..Version: 3.121
✓ What happened.I have been receiving the daily articles from Medium for about 18 months. Originally I found them to be very interesting and even informative. I noticed it was starting to look really trashy so I looked at my list of interests and tweaked it a bit to see if that would help. It did not. As an example I put science, photography, leadership and marketing as some topics of interest. You know what I get. Trash related to the sort of topics you would expect from the some rage at the grocery store. Sex, how to lie to a significant other and get away with it, best sexual positions. Donald Trump is a hot topic from Medium and I get it but not one I targeted. The man is a moron! So. I will allow my subscription to run its course and see if it improves but right now it is a paid subscription to the national enquirer was far as I can tell. And I will not review if this continues. Two stars because one was a little harsh..Version: 3.132
✓ App doesn’t do the platform justiceIn article view the app provides a clean and pleasant reading experience, but navigation and bookmarking tools aren’t nearly as polished. On larger displays, the home screen looks bare. Based on Medium’s website it’s clear they know how to use the space effectively — they just haven’t optimised the app for iPad/iPad Pro, which rather defeats the point of offering a iPad app to begin with. The glitchy bookmarking tool is also frustrating. When the app refreshes, articles that have been archived frequently move themselves back to the reading list. This often means archiving an article two or three times before it stays put..Version: 3.17
✓ Good Blogs, iPad App Needs WorkThere is some really good and interesting writing on the site itself, and you can subscribe to what you like and mostly ignore what you don’t. There is definitely a political bent here, hard left. There are conservative viewpoints but you have to go looking for them and they seem to draw the most fire, by far. Just be aware of it. I mute a lot of the “Trump is Satan” authors but they still manage to show up in my weekly email, which is irritating. No way to customize that. The app itself is weak and I’ve now deleted it because navigation is so bad. You can read article and responses well enough, but if someone responds to something you say, you’re hard-pressed to go back to your original comment or the original article because there just is no navigation for it. On the website you can always go upward in the thread; on the app you can only go downward. I comment a lot so that’s a deal-breaker for me. Also Dark Mode when commenting gives you a black background with no change in the text color, i.e. you can’t read what you’re typing. Come on guys, this is not even a QA failure, this is just a total lack of dev testing..Version: 4.31
✓ Good app but needs better feedThe feed is either all premium, not sorted by most recent, and not clear where they are coming from relevant to interests. I would add in option to sort by newest, and make more clear the topics. Also it'd be nice to have more ways behind the pay wall..Version: 3.68
✓ Stupid way for loginGreat articles, however, it’s stupid app, specially on iPad i cannot login normally, but being sent a link each time I want to login to my account and the link never works... No, i don;t want an account linked to my social media, just a simple sign up with email and login with password, thank you!.Version: 3.29
✓ A mixed experience so farI've only been signed up for a week, finally succumbing after a series of interesting stories sent by email over the last few years. However, it's not easy to find good stories, largely due to the sparse interface, and, when I do, the app keeps crashing. Previous reviewers have alluded to this problem and not much seems to have been done to improve matters. I'll probably just go back to the two or three articles a month I get for free..Version: 4.46
✓ Full of pedophilesI started using Medium as a CSA survivor, as I’d noticed other survivors publish on the app. I was horrified to find that Medium staff lets pedophiles who’ve been banned by Twitter use Medium to write about how pedophiles aren’t doing anything wrong. As a CSA survivor, I am horrified and utterly disgusted. I will never use Medium again. I suggest no one else use it either..Version: 3.40
✓ Filter out certain topicsI keep getting a lot of notifications for columns on weight loss, when I have definitely never even read any articles on medium regarding weight loss. There is no way to choose what sort of topics you *don’t* want to see, and I myself am not struggling with an eating disorder or at risk for one but there will be many people that are whose entire life can spiral if they are inundated with “How to lose a lot of unwanted weight fast” “How I maintained 14% body fat” it’s ridiculous you don’t have an option to filter out certain topics already but for some people it can be a serious danger to their health and well-being.Version: 4.24
✓ Surprisingly, I like it. It crashes every time I use it more than five minutes, thoughI've only been on Medium for two months. I was pleasantly surprised by the content. It wasn't all clickbait. I went to a Medium live writing session and the teacher was charming and funny. So I decided to stick around. I have an iPhone 12 Pro and no internet issues. Not sure why Medium crashes like this. Maybe tracking? I don't know. That's why i didnt get a membership before. The site is built, be to track your reading and I didn't like that lack of privacy. However, some writers I loved were on it, which legitimized it. I need to find more writers of interest to follow. As much as I probably could use the "I made $$$ this month from writing here's how" articles and how relatable that journey was, I get resentful of clickbait titles and worse, the consistent typos on the especially clickbaity ones that manage to snag me. I am interested in productivity, etc, but it's hard to tease out what's real and what's just a content creator maximising his brand. By the third click or so, the app freezes for me. I would love for this to change so I can see the direction Medium is growing. I think they mean well and have lofty aspirations. For me, not crashing would be a good start. Thanks..Version: 4.53
✓ This app is the worst media site I’ve ever usedArticles are written by people who have no idea what they are talking about. Ive put in tremendous amounts of effort into sifting through all of the garbage on this app to try to tell the algorithm what i like and dont like. After selected over a dozen interests (none of which involve self help), and intentionally engaging with articles about interesting topics, i have come to learn that the algorithm on this app is made to do the exact opposite of what you want. I have cleared my reading history and then clicked not interested on HUNDREDS of “self help”articles. Every time i open the app i am plagued with an entire screen of “self help” (not real science backed methods, more like “Top Ten tips to become rich”, “top 40 ways to become a genius”, etc) pseudoscience garbage, and to add insult to injury EVERRY ONE SAYS BASED ON YOUR READING HISTORY. WHAT READING HISTORY??? i have read exactly three interesting articles in the 100+ articles i have read. I cant believe this app costs a subscription fee. This app isnt even worth a one time payment of $5..Version: 4.135
✓ Great app but...After reading some comments here I decided to get this app. the concept is great, however, the articles on the feed aren’t really up to date. Also, the limit of reading only two stories per month without paying for a subscription is too minimal. I might delete the app soon, considering there’s too little I can read and enjoy. Sigh.Version: 3.106
✓ Need a way to resume where we left offFor some reason, this app is super sensitive to swipe right. When clicking back to the article, it always get back to the top of the article instead of where we left off….Version: 4.43
✓ Great reading but app faultsI love this app because I love the reading but the app tells me I’ve read three reads for the month when I’ve only read one so I hardly use it anymore. As a student I can’t afford the paid app yet but as a student access to these types of writing is important..Version: 3.97
✓ Conservative libertarianThe platform works well until you realize that a lot of what is going is Progressives speaking to themselves in an nacho chamber on the paying side of the site with articles from other publications and authors who primarily represent the hardcore Progressive agenda, which is why many of us stay on the fringes or the unpaid side, since there is little balance on the paying side of the Fence. Medium has some very good authors on the Pay side, but they also have some down right bigots who do not deserve house room in that their logical and objective skills would get them a D at best in a College essay class since their research and background is abysmal, as well as their conclusions. But that might be said of a lot of journalists these days as well. So I refuse to pay to hear the same old same old, as much as I would like to participate in meaningful discussion, I see it seeping away on this site..Version: 3.28
✓ So far not too impressedI have been subscribing for about a year to the medium through email but if you want to react to any of the articles that you read or if you want to comment or ask questions you are told to download the app so I did. I was hoping to possibly write short stories and post them on this website trying to gain a little side hustle while I am writing my biography. Apparently you have to pay for the service and you have to pay to use the app in order to comment or even tap like. Another user also commented on basically the same thing you could probably Google and find what you are looking for for free. But there are several articles that I do find interesting to read but without payment you are limited on what you can read for how long. Not sure that I will keep the app or the subscription to the medium because they do email me a lot but with restrictions on how much I can read..Version: 4.93
✓ Writing in the appI don’t know what changed, but I can no longer find write button in the app (used to be a big green plus) and I can no longer find my drafts… I love using Medium but sometimes inspiration strikes when I’m outside and I don’t have my computer with me, or when I’m travelling. It’s not convenient not to have the option to write using the app..Version: 4.79
✓ Ripped off for so called upgradeIt’s the first time that an on line subscription payment by me for a service has been taken fraudulently. Since November 2019 when I signed up for an upgrade I have been maintained at the free level but Medium has happily continued to take my money for the supposed upgrade! Fruitless attempts to resolve this appears to have me locked into a round of Bots. The outcome is it’s my problem not Mediums. So too bad A warning to you out there don’t support this app,.Version: 3.106
✓ Some great pieces, when I find them...I love some of the thought-provoking pieces on this platform, and my access to them after upgrading to premium. I love how easy it is to publish as well. However, more and more I’m running into articles that are either click-bait, or geared toward building the author’s brand (usually a combination of some buzz words and fluff), or just really poorly written. The primary method of content discovery is very heavily machine based; I used to try to get around that by first checking whether an article was heavily applauded, commented on (engaging), before investing time to read it, but unfortunately, that was removed in the redesign. The emails I receive re-emphasize this, and the interface doesn’t make it so easy to explore other writings (again because the assumption is that all the exploration you’ll ever need to do is in the list of machine generated articles). I long for a day where I don’t have to waste my time finding good content..Version: 3.76
✓ Please Help!I’ve been paying for this 3 months & I just finally got access on my iPhone/iPad. I couldn’t figure out why it was saying I had 2 articles left each month every time itunes billing showed it had renewed. I finally realized that I needed to “restore purchases.” And i’m not sure why but that fixed it. In the meantime, the last two months I had paid and got nothing but the free articles. ITunes support said I need to reach out to the developer but the developer site has no section for support. 2 out of 3 months that i’ve had this, it has not worked on my iPhone/iPad and i’d like to talk with someone about resolving that or getting a refund. Restoring my purchases seems to have worked but i’m not sure why I had to restore to begin with. Maybe after an update or after getting a new device, i’m not sure. Either way, I love the app but it really stinks i’ve not been able to get support. Please take a moment to reach out to me!!.Version: 3.66
✓ Poor UX designEvery time when I'm on the website and I see the button ”open in app” the button redirects me to the App store instead of opening the article in the app which is already installed... Please fix your deep links 🤦🏻♂️.Version: 3.70
✓ Text to voice ipad appThe selection of speaker type (male, female, US, UK etc) works on website but this function seems to be missing in ipad app. If not possible, then how about using the ipados accessibility voice options instead?.Version: 4.190
✓ Worthless if you don’t follow specific authors.I used to open the Medium app most every day and I’d see some interesting article to skim or read. Now I open the app to a blank screen because I don’t follow specific authors, nor do I care to. I follow topics. I want a wide range of views, not only views from specific people. So my Home tab is blank. I then go to the Search tab. What do you know? It gives me a _very_ few random selections from the topics I’m interested in, then it fills most of the rest of the page with WHO I should follow. Worse still, it pushes on me articles “we’re” reading. What do I care what you’re reading? And worst of all, it wraps up pushing topic suggestions on me I have absolutely NO interest to follow. I still want to read and reference the articles I know are buried in there, the articles that caught my interest enough to pay for the subscription, but if the app continues down this UI/UX path I’m just going to cancel the membership or maybe I can find an alternative UI/app to the Medium content..Version: 4.40
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