Don’t worry. I’m indeed blogging about blogging but it’s in the interest of a good cause. See, I looked at this medium page on mobile.
It’s something I’m not particularly interested in doing. All of my medium work is done either on paper or a computer and, apparently, I’m part of a majority of users because medium themselves decided that they would no longer support creating and editing articles on their app. So I guess if you just get that bolt of inspiration, put it in a bottle and set it aside for when you want to deal with a computer or the joys of editing through a web browser.
However, I took a look at one of my articles and was rather surprised at what I saw. For once, I read something I wrote without cringing all the while. Even more surprising and a little annoying; it seems you get screenfuls of text without anything breaking them even on the standard length of my posts. I thought it was fine, and indeed “fine” is how it looks on a standard 1080p display, but if you are reading on mobile the experience is overall less pleasant.
So I’ve taken some steps to try and correct this. You may have noticed an additional image or two on the articles for the last week or two. Just something to break the monotony of scrolling and keep up with a paradigm designed to provide users with a huge dopamine rush whenever they scroll down.
I’ll see where it lands, but I’d like to reassure you and my other reader that it’s very unlikely that we’ll end up on the tyranny of images for their own sake. Apart from ruining the experience on desktop, it adds needless scrolling and creates issues with pacing. Jeff Atwood typed it best: an image is worth a thousand words. So you shouldn’t add needless images to your site, anymore than you would insert a thousand random words in the middle of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hzrDeceEKc
Anyway, here’s Wonderwall.
