Dear Medium crew, please make every story URL friendly and/or customizable

Max Lazarenko
Aug 23, 2017 · 3 min read
This is an actual link to one of my stories on Medium (Photo credit: Eberhard Grossgasteiger)

First off thank you, Medium, Medium Staff!

Thanks for everything you do for us. For creating this amazing platform with the new economic model. It is way more pleasant and convenient than Facebook, for example. But here’s one thing which is probably not the next stop at your feature roadmap. I wish it were…

Friendly URLs for Cyrillic enconding

Most of the Medium folk probably even don’t realize this is the problem. Because they write in English. But I decided to highlight this issue in a separate post and ask everyone who writes in Russian here to support the cause. Because it is pain to see and send this to friends and colleagues.

The stories’ URLs titled with Cyrillic letters are ugly and uber-long.

See it for yourself

on Facebook desktop
on Facebook comments
Post on mobile when URL kept
When writing an e-mail on mobile

I admit we have Bitly and Buffer and what not to shorten the links and make them look nicer. But that extra step is not always necessary.

Solution?

I guess you know better whether it could be an automatic or a customizable feature. Or both? I thought of something like this:

Just like in Wordpress

This will make a lot of clever (=perfectionist) people happy. And I think I’ll upgrade to Premium sooner :)

Thank you for reading this.

Clap your hands and share with friends. Let’s make Medium a better place.

UPD Thanks to Anton Lyubushkin now I remembered there IS this option when you come back to the story draft (on desktop only?). But could you make it more user-friendly?

UPD 2 The same thing needed for a Publication URL.


Если вы не понимаете по-английски

Посмотрите ещё раз на картинки. Беда есть в дизайне Медиума. Ссылки на статьи с кириллицей в заголовке страшные и длинные. Лайфхак назвать статью на латинице—опубликовать—изменить название на кириллицу (как в Телеграфе) тут не работает. Проверял.

Хотите поддержать мою идею и обратить внимание дизайнеров Медиума на этот недочёт? Хлопайте в ладоши и поделитесь с друзьями в соцсетях. Сделаем Медиум ещё лучше. Быстрее.

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