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Discussion on: Let's make a Twitter bot! (Part I)

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Paweł Kowalski

Maybe this tutorial will finally allow me to create unMediumify bot im dreaming about ;)

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Rane Wallin

I don't know what that does, but it sounds cool.

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Paweł Kowalski • Edited

You know how medium.com likes to track you, download 30MB of useless js in the bg, then slap you with paywall or kill your mobile experience by their app install banners?

This bot would listen for a mention @unmediumify (similar to @unroll or whatever the threads bot is called), open the link that this mention was in response to, if it was a medium link (in any shape or form), it would create a place for the content without all this crap - ie. gist, pastebin - ideally something like "Reader mode" feature in Firefox/Safari.

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Rane Wallin

Ah! Yes. That makes sense. I avoid Medium these days.

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Paweł Kowalski

Wow, its been 2 years and I still didnt do it and still am looking for it. Medium became so s***ty it doesnt even load for me nowadays. It just freezes at fold level and doesnt render anything below. Geez what a crappy website... cant understand why anyone would want to publish there their valuable content.