Is Medium bRoKeN?
Again??
Hello. Hello? Is anybody out there?
God, now I hear Phil Collins in my head again. *sigh*
What the actual *%&# is going on with Medium now? For three days give or take I have had to work to find anything to read! If I wanted to work this hard I’d be married! Where did everyone go?
Does everyone that I follow and every publication that I follow collectively decide to take a vacay? ’Cause if that’s the case somebody somewhere has got some ‘splaining to do about why MY azz wasn’t invited!
Upper right-hand corner of the Medium.com page. I have six beaming faces staring back at me apparently with nothing to say. No little bubbles above their heads with a number in it indicating how many new and wonderful things they have poured their little hearts out into.
Over the weekend I nearly had heart failure when I couldn’t even get onto Medium. I’ve got a blood pressure cuff thingy here but now I guess I’m going to have to request a defibrillator from my insurance company next.
But if I click under those six beaming faces where it says “All from following”? Merry freakin’ Christmas to me! Tons of new stuff for me to devour! Oh, joy! But just like eating cheesecake too fast, the euphoria is short-lived. Once I’ve gobbled that up I’m left with nothing but, well, YouTube.
And for those of you who have been following me for more than a minute, you know that I’m not usually a whiner or a complainer. If I bitch about something then there’s usually a damn good reason behind it. (Side note-I’m so glad that I’m so fired up about this that Grammarly can’t keep up! SCORE!). I have nothing better to do with my life than to live on Medium. Sad but the truth shall set you free. So if I’ve got time to kill and I have to work this hard to find people and publications to read I don’t even want to think about what the average reader is going through that actually has a life. Who has that kind of time (other than me obviously) to go on a daily archeological dig for reading material?
And I won’t even mention (who are we kidding of course I am) why something as silly as the comment color recently changed. WHY in all that is holy was it necessary to change my comments from white to blue?? I much prefer fuchsia and thanks for asking. Is this really what you want to spend your resources on with everything else that’s going on here, Medium?
Can you at the very, very, and I do mean very least have a single page with the top say 100 publications listed in alpha order? Or will that cause your universe to spin out of control? That way when the site is having an extended brain fart it will make it a hella lot easier to find something new to read!
#sorrynotsorry
#justsayin
11 am update One lady that I follow, I tried to highlight something in an article. It would highlight and the site told me she was offline. WTH? Three tries later I finally got the highlight to take.
I was on a publication’s page and tried to clap. Took more than one attempt but it too finally took. I’m getting notifications long after they’ve taken place. And just now? I got the little number one hovering over a publication so I of course clicked on it to see what new thing they had published.
IT WAS FROM TWO DAYS AGO.
All I want to know is this — what turd is causing the backup so we can flush that turd once and for all!!