Oh wow, I thought it was just me. I used to like Medium several years ago, then due to my work stopped using it, and in the last few months tried to pick it up again. I often found interesting articles, but then every time I wasn’t able to read it because I had to pay. And the issue wasn’t so much paying for it, it was more the way it was presented. I basically got hooked by the title and summary, but then somehow I couldn’t even read the first paragraph of the article... I had to pay to continue reading. This gave me such a bad sentiment that I lost my appetite for the article. If the paying part had been presented or integrated somehow differently, things could have been different I feel.