Agree 100%. "Pardon the interruption" followed by an article with a fixed top bar asking me to "become a member" (supporting an anti-open web tech company like it's a charity) and a fixed bottom bar asking me to sign up.

Why?

TL;DR: Really bad user experience.

For a longer explanation see https://medium.com/@nikitonsky/medium-is-a-poor-choice-for-b...

Alternatives better than medium: Wordpress, Blogger, github pages, plain html files.

“For a longer explanation: see this Medium post.”

There is a certain irony there which betrays one of the problems left unaddressed.

The purpose of it being a Medium post is so you can instantly see what he's talking about.