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When people need to use browser extensions to read your site, the end is in sight. https://github.com/thebaer/MMRA
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Make Medium Readable Again — a browser extension
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| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 13 | 0 | 13 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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17 sourcesThis browser extension has really saved my Medium reading experience.
https://github.com/thebaer/MMRA
In No Thank You, Mr. PeckerThere's a Chrome and Firefox extension called Make Medium Readable Again: https://github.com/thebaer/MMRA
It works great and disables many of these annoying things.
In Medium is a poor choice for bloggingThen it wouldn't work on Medium-powered sites like hackernoon.com. There is an open, up-for-grabs issue to fix that permission [0] if anyone wants to help us solve this!
In the meantime, there isn't anything crazy you have to do to make it only work on medium.com -- just clone the repo to your machine, change this one line to "https://medium.com/*" [1], and then load the extension in your browser.
[0] https://github.com/thebaer/MMRA/issues/15
[1] https://github.com/thebaer/MMRA/blob/master/manifest.json#L2...
In A browser extension to make Medium more readableYou can build it from source if you would like. It needs to do that because some (most) medium posts are not on the medium.com domain.
https://github.com/thebaer/MMRA
In A browser extension to make Medium more readableThere is a fix for Medium[0] but the general trend of massive boilerplates and little content really needs to die.
0. https://github.com/thebaer/MMRA
In The “Facebook Nevers”Yes, Medium has terrible reading experience. I found this extension (https://github.com/thebaer/MMRA) a while ago. You should try it.
In Netflix FlameScopeYou might like this extension [0] for Firefox and Chrome that removes the sticky header and footer from Medium sites.
[0]: https://github.com/thebaer/MMRA
In Examples of everything new in ECMAScript 2016, 2017, and 2018This plugin fixes that: https://github.com/thebaer/MMRA
In Hopefully, the Ultimate Guide to a Flat Icon SetAbsolutely -- feel free to submit a GitHub issue and I'll take care of it: https://github.com/thebaer/MMRA
In Make Medium Readable AgainSo it works on custom domains like hackernoon.com [0]
[0]: https://github.com/thebaer/MMRA/blob/master/content.js#L66
In Make Medium Readable AgainHey, creator here. This is also available for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/make-medium-r...
And feel free to suggest any improvements, or submit a pull request on GitHub! https://github.com/thebaer/MMRA
In Make Medium Readable AgainAs someone else mentioned, this is so it works on custom domain publications, but you can verify in the source nothing nefarious is going on.
It's also on the list of issues to fix: https://github.com/thebaer/MMRA/issues/15
In Make Medium Readable AgainSide note, install this extension to make medium pages readable by removing the useless top and bottom bars: https://github.com/thebaer/MMRA
In AMP: the missing controversyYep, nailed it. For those of us who still read despite all that, here's the browser extension you've been looking for (Make Medium Readable Again): https://github.com/thebaer/MMRA
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