Show HN: Chrome extension that hides Medium.com articles on HN and DN (opens in new tab)

Its not the articles, its the platform (and its aesthetics). Medium is not meant for things like code samples and shoehorning them in leads to these fullwidth blocks which are hard to read. The fullwidth images and embeds are also somewhat annoying.

There are better places to reproduce your content

edit, fixing a typo

Someone requested it on DN because they prefer to visit Medium directly. I made it pretty much because I could. To be honest, I have it installed but keep it off.

Because they are idiots. Seriously. Medium articles are not super-prevalent (4 in top 200 right now). And tend to be more thoughtful than much of the content that shows up here.

It'd be pretty easy to mod this to do that. I can't tell if you're being snarky but I could actually do that if you really want me to. I could also change the alert to read "# dreams were crushed."

Not at all, there's a ton of good content on Medium. This was just a little project, not some commentary on Medium as a platform.

Probably not. People are weirdly picky and want their vision of the best possible 30 articles to always be on the front page.

Some people like to visit Medium directly, some people try to avoid Medium altogether. This is for them.

Exactly what I was thinking. What is the value of removing medium articles from HN/DN?

At first I thought this is an oversight on their part for not providing a web safe font fallback, but they do. Maybe it's because when ghostery blocks the url, so the browser thinks the font exists and doesn't fall back to the next one somehow.

That's definitely one of the target audiences :)

I don't. That'd be a hell of a competitive strategy, though.