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Discussion on: How do you compare dev.to and medium?

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Kasey Speakman

Medium has a nice aesthetic, but it annoys me with popups and footer banners urging me to subscribe.

Medium nag

There are about a dozen things blocked by my ad blocker (vs 2 for this site). The more blocks I see, the harder I find it to link the site to others, because their experience might be significantly worse than what I see.

I can't quite put my finger on it, but I don't really like the way comments are done on Medium. It's abbreviation of the comments seems more invasive than just hiding unpopular ones. I have to expand them a lot.

I like that dev.to is focused on devs and positive community and lets me sign in with github. Whereas medium is more general including a lot of pop and political crap. So even the tech articles draw extra flies.