Medium

First, when a publishing platform alienates its content providers, it's a bad sign. Once again, Medium has done that. Next, the recent changes have only improved the usability slightly. It's still challenging to locate recent content written by those you follow, and there are UI flaws that are just silly. Always, when a platform designed for reading does *not* allow me to choose my preferred font, they are lacking in more ways than I could describe. The sun is setting on Medium.

I am a writer and Medium has always been my favorite app to write whenever I want to. But then I noticed there were changes made earlier and I don't approve of it. Denying writers from writing and simply making it just an app to read stories,poems etc doesn't quite appeal to me. Please include the story editor option. Bring it back. I love medium and wouldn't want to back out from the app simply because of this subsequent changes made which I don't understand the reason for such.

Extremely buggy interface. Direct links don't open, crashes when searching for a specific article and lots more. To be honest it was working well in the beginning. Not sure what happened, and everything is very sluggish and ridiculous to use. The Website version is a much better experience than the app. Unfortunately I use the app a lot.

I used to love this app but after the latest update where they removed the option to write stories and save drafts, I really find it not of much use. It was easier to write blogs in the app as it was always handy and I could just jot down whenever I had some new thought for the blog. I don't find it convenient to write on the web browser. Please bring back the draft feature. 🙏

Do I love the app? For being able to use medium on the go, yes I do. But all of a sudden I can't find my drafts anymore. I don't know who complained but writers need to be able to enjoy the app too. Being able to edit a draft and then share it with a friend before publishing all while on the app is a big plus. Please fix!

The app itself is great! A lot of great content to read and learn from other people knowledge and experiences. That said, the negative side is that you can only get unlimited access paying with dolar. I'd be very thankful (and I know that a lot of others too) if Medium team considered to adjust the price of unlimited access to the specific country currency. I'm from Brazil, so it would be great to have a fair price in brazilian real. US$ 5 can be too much for some people in some countries.

Bad UX flow Tried to report a bug related to the subscription through sending an email that can be found from the Medium Play Store page. After that, I received an email says this option is no longer valid, and you need to go to the help page on the website. Since I have installed the Medium app on this phone, I cannot navigate to the website. Great!

I hope the developer would take some consideration to bring back the edit and post article via android mobile phone, I came back to Medium just to find out these feature is no longer available and it really disappoint me (and most of android users I believe). Being a writer doesn't have to require PC/Laptop device, it just shuts our interest in Medium, if the developer didn't really take this seriously, trust me it just gonna disadvantage Medium in general, you'll lose more and more customers.

Was initially pretty ok with the app. Wasn't fantastic, was far from awful, but now that the ability to write a story has been removed as a content creator I literally have no reason to have the app & will be deleting when I'm done writing this review. My request: Make a second app for content creators. Great opportunity to tailor towards the user with greater focus. If writing comes back I'd love a notification. Thanks!

Previous 3 star review erased. Not only are the reading features still awful (I select the "books" tab and it shows me exclusively articles on crypto, a topic I am not even subscribed to) but now the writing features (the sole reason for me using medium tbh) are gone. Literally gone. You can't write on mobile anymore. Not even on your browser. Only 2 days ago I wrote a review about Skyscanner being the only app worse than its mobile site. Medium rose to the challenge I guess and ruined both.

I just tried to draft two articles I have in mind. And I can't. Why? They removed the ability to draft articles on mobile. How many people seriously spend all their writing time at a computer? Because I can't manage that luxury! I'm in a PhD program and have a baby. When I have quick ideas, I love to get them down as soon as possible, so I don't lose them. Sure, I could email stuff to myself, use a different app, etc. But it's a hassle, and other apps are distracting, or not writing oriented.

No complaints as a reader, it works as you would expect. As a writer, however, it can be very clunky to use, as the mobile text editor is missing several features that are readily available on desktop.

I joined the app to write on the 6th of may 2022 only to found out i could no longer do that on my mobile. ( Seems that option is only available for laptop/PC users now. A device i do not have) I don't understand why Medium would do this, but I'm definitely not sticking around until this is fixed.

I will no longer use this service because of the decision to remove the writing function. I don't want to have to log in to Medium via a desktop every time I want to write - sometimes it's nice to have the option to jot down a few ideas via the mobile app. Terrible decision to remove it. Will now look for an other service, maybe WordPress etc.

I do not like the new update at all. Removing the writing option from the app was not a good decision at all. Not only is writing on the website is difficult and clunky with my phone, but I have to use the desktop version to write. I hate it. Please change it back. We like it the way it was.

Really bad move to remove the story editing feature on mobile. I was going to write my first Medium post on my phone, but will now be deleting the app, as it is pointless now, since I don't have access to a computer to write from . 10/10 would not recommend 👎👎👎

I downloaded the app to be able to easily write and edit drafts on my phone, which I seem to no longer be able to do. Not sure why they would take this functionality away, but doing so essentially renders this app useless to me.

It was all good until you decided to erase the content writing feature through the app :'D I used to write some stuff and I don't usually open my laptop that often, so it's really a big miss. I mean, many of the reviews now are complaining about this, so I hope you could reconsider to add the writing feature back for the app.

I actually want to give 5 star but giving 1 star just to make you see my opinion. In medium app UI, if you can provide favourite people it will be useful. As of now I only see all the people I follow. But if I want to read articles of particular authors I am more interested in, then I need to maintain a seperate notes for it. It will also be very useful for premium subscribers who pay particularly for reading articles from certains authors and publications.

Absolutely hate the new update, where the option to literally save your drafts has been removed. With times, as brands move towards making their user experience smoother, Medium on the other hand has decided to go absolutely downhill. Please switch back to how it used be as soon as possible, otherwise this is going to be another Tumblr 2.0!

Bad move on the latest release. If I write a new article, I can't use my phone to proofread it anymore. Neither can I change the title/subtitle if I have an ideia while waiting for whatever will my phone. If Squarespace, a much more complex UI, allows us to make some changes to a website, why can't a simple UI like Medium allow for editing???? (NOT criticizing the site itself, just the app!)

When I was having a strange day, a wonderful and insightful post popped up through medium and pinged me. It taught me the value of not only being gripped by love and order, but also necessary evils when chaos is convoluting. If it wasn't for these moments, I may have lost my way once again through misunderstanding of self and philosophy. I will always be eternally greatful for apps of significance that share truth in potentially dark times, or wisdoms in times of peace~ 🙏💖

The app is slow to post notifications. Much more delayed compared to the website. I struggled to remove articles from lists. The updates aren't happening.

Dun like the upgrade done on 24 March. The reading list returns to the top when I clicked back after reading an article. So if the article I am reading is No 50 on the list, I have to scroll through everything again before I can browse the later ones. Urgh! The previous version was easier n more convenient to use.

I used to keep the Medium app on my phone for fettling sentence clarity and fixing typos after publication. That's not necessary for an "exceptional reading experience", apparently

This app has becoming almost unusable. Bugs abound. Can't save articles anymore. Formatting is completely broken - all comments are shown as a wall of text without paragraph breaks. Editing doesn't work half the time. Recent activity can't be loaded. It's a complete mess. Will probably have to cancel my membership since half the features don't work.

I really like mediums articles but this app is awful when it comes to small screens. You can zoom in, you can't rotate the screen for landscape reading. It seems to be designed for tablets and tablets alone. Anyways been a paid subscriber for a long time but this is just getting annoying... and really questions if mediums really that good if they can't fix a simple usability issue.

Uninstalling the app as it's no longer allowing to compose/write stories in mobile app and they have made this feature in website only. I am unable to understand why they made this change as many people prefer mobile device to write stories. It's not feasible to access laptop all the time. So now this app is no longer useful for me, will check website sometimes. Thanks