It's kind of like my Google Tiles: whenever a tile takes me to a site that is paywalled, I have two reactions:

1. "Dafuq? Seriously??"
2. Hitting the "Do not show further tiles from "

Yeah. Ideally dont post medium links at all.

It is very hostile, especially on mobile where i get redirected to some non-existing "medium://" url that shows me 404 because i dont have their app.

I refuse to install their BS app to read web. I wish all technical writings moved to dev.to.

Also, no links to any article, I don't think dev.to should become a link aggregator, content should be posted here so it can be discussed here.

Most folks in this thread have probably already read this post, but I'll link it because it touches on this...

[## Medium Was Never Meant to Be a Part of the Developer Ecosystem

Ben Halpern ・ Jun 3 '19 ・ 5 min read

meta](/devteam/medium-was-never-meant-to-be-a-part-of-the-developer-ecosystem-25a0)

Paywalls are generally frustrating, particularly as a mechanism for viral growth. Having users pay directly instead of having it run through ads could be a good thing (Netflix, etc. is generally well liked by consumers) but it's not content that gets consistently linked to.

The big issue is that the software ecosystem runs on widely shared, free and open content. We just couldn't do our jobs the same way if GitHub issues or Stack Overflow posts wound up getting paywalled.

So yeah, don't link to paywalled stuff. Stack Overflow has been growing their Stack Overflow for Teams line of business which offers a private version of the service for big companies to create an internal knowledge-base, and this works in complement to the free Q&A service. I'm pleased with that approach.

prepend the url with outline.com and you can read it now

I was just hit with a paywall the other day thinking, I rarely read Medium posts and was quite annoyed. I don't contribute to medium any longer because of this single reason.

Unless it's just a footnote or citation to a proper post, and is well-signposted as external and restricted.

From the writer side of things, medium proposes Friend links to avoid this problem.

But the best solution by far is to publish the same article on dev.to and share that link.