Do you miss Medium's old collection functionality? Me too. This Meteor app aims to bring it back. In case you forgot, collections used to be more open. A user could:
- submit an article/story to any collection without having to be pre-approved as a "writer" by the collection owner.
- submit an article/story to multiple collections, not just one.
Several people have written articles bemoaning the changes:
- https://medium.com/@rumblepress/medium-dont-change-your-collection-submission-rules-ccdc04c39d61
- http://www.socialmediatoday.com/content/how-medium-killed-its-best-feature-data-driven-love-letter
- https://medium.com/human-communication/how-medium-is-stifling-creativitiy-894bb8f8db07
- https://medium.com/goodux-badux/medium-what-did-you-do-ba0596ed9513
The app is super ugly right now while I work on building out the basic relationships and functionality, but that's OK because of The Iceberg Secret, right?
Perhaps, in the future, Extra Medium can be made into a browser extension that directly modifies the Medium website, but for now, it's a standalone app that runs in another tab/window. Also, I'm not trying to reinvent anything Medium already does (e.g. comments on articles, bookmarks, recommendations, etc.). Instead, the goal is to provide a better way to discover content on Medium by restoring collections to their former open-spirited glory. Maybe it can add a few extras too!