Something that wasn't mentioned is that there is a reading cap for Medium articles if the user doesn't pay. Something that is frustrating is finding some technical documentation for a project on Medium and being hit with "you hit your reading cap of 5 stories..." and having to open up an incognito window.
That is dumb. I shouldn't have to pay money to get around a pay wall for a project's technical documentation.
For one, if you don't like a project using a freemium service for its documentation, then take it up with the project, not with Medium.
Secondly, documentation isn't free; is it really that unreasonable for projects to want to be funded for the work they're doing? Medium is pretty cheap. If you're running into your Medium limit regularly, why not just subscribe?Complaining that you have to pay $5/mo to access a resource you use a lot, when you're probably paying $50/mo for internet anyway, seems a bit unreasonable.
When you write an article on Medium you can choose whether to put it behind the paywall and monetize it, or make it available to everyone for free and not monetize it. That feels like a pretty good capability to me really.
That is dumb. I shouldn't have to pay money to get around a pay wall for a project's technical documentation.