The one thing I don’t like about Medium.com

Medium is one of the product that provides the best user experience when it comes to writing or blogging. However, the way it treats Responses/Comments on other posts is what ruins the experience

Everything about Medium is simple, beautiful and great. So much, in fact, that I’ve also hosted my UX portfolio with custom domain feature.

The one thing that’s wrong

There is one thing however quite annoying and just-not-right is, the way Medium treats the Responses (to other posts). Those are meant to be treated as comments but instead are considered as the posts you published.

What’s the drawback?

First: It’s because the comments are treated as Posts, it gets listed under your Published segment along with the other actual posts you’ve written.

This is how Medium lists all your articles and comments in single list. Do we really go back to our “comments” we have written on other posts? No, we don’t!

Second: Sometimes, these comment-posts are also fetched at the end of your article under Other Articles Written

Do you want your readers to see what you comment on other post?

Good thing here is that you get the list of all the comments you’ve written just in case if anyone wants to go back to it but it definitely needs to be separated from the actual articles.

As a user experience designer, I’m curious to know why Medium made this decision? Anyone know about it?

Also, let me know in the comments if there are any other issues that ruin Medium’s experience for you.

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