It requires an email to even read the first article, or at least has appeared to any time I’ve tried to go over there and read stuff

Most places that do that, I am fine putting my email into, sometimes even paying for them, but for some reason I don’t understand, medium.com has some kind of anti Feng shui that makes me just hit the back button annoyed any time I click on an article and the thing pops up. It’s like somehow their web site design has it timed and positioned at the perfect psychological moment to create irritation

It is purely irrational and purely only my personal reaction to it but that is how I react to it