No idea what happened because I stopped using it after they started adding all the accessibility friction. The UI was decent, original. And giving the reader an idea of the "Reading time" of each article was a nice touch.
But yeah, that friction got to be a little too much.
They're blocked for me where ever I can block them, just because I got sick of innocently following a link and being ambushed by Medium and their hassle. Or 'friction', to euphemize.