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Adam Kazwell
Medium for iOS (updated) — Write and publish directly from your iPhone and iPad
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Ryan Hoover
I was speaking with @besvinick about Medium's lack of publishing/writing features on their mobile app. I think they were listening to us. 😉
Ali Mese
@besvinick @rrhoover Oh man, finally. I have been waiting for this for months now.
Ryan Hoover
Nice work, @tyler_hedrick. Medium has always been a place for longer form, well-thought writing, something generally not ideal on a mobile experience. How do you imagine people will use the iOS app for publishing and can you share any surprises you uncovered working on the project?
Erik Torenberg
@tyler_hedrick @rrhoover also has this been in the pipeline for a longtime? were there a non-trivial amount of people writing stories manually from their phone? what was the breaking point for the team to finally prioritize it
Tyler Hedrick
Maker
@rrhoover I'm really excited about the new stream view and I think it's going to pave the way for more casual content on Medium. The iOS editor just solidifies that by allowing anyone, anytime to publish a Medium post. I'm expecting and hoping to see much more short form content from everyday life. Medium is really becoming the place for everyone's stories and ideas on the web.
Tyler Hedrick
Maker
@rrhoover @eriktorenberg This has been the top requested feature since we launched bookmarks in the app last year. We really wanted to get mobile publishing right and launch something we were proud of. We started implementing the iOS editor about 2 months ago.
Jason Shah
@tyler_hedrick @rrhoover I'm curious how this is going so far / will go. I wrote on Medium a bit this past week (on my laptop). Even with beautiful design, I wonder the form factor of mobile just doesn't work for long-form creation (or consumption). Maybe that'll change with time i.e. I didn't think I'd squint to read news articles on an iPhone 10 years ago and I do today. But I'm still skeptical.
Adam Kazwell
Hunter
Really like how the Headline and Blockquote features were implemented...well done!
Tyler Hedrick
Maker
@kaz thank you! Glad you like it :)
Ben Tossell
I spotted that Medium snuck in a little song in the update details! Who else saw this? https://twitter.com/bentossell/s...
Marcus Karoumi
Awesome. Have waited for this. Why did it take so long to make this feature available? Of course, you wanted it to be PERFECT, but what was the obstacle?
Tyler Hedrick
Maker
Hey! My name is Tyler and I was one of the IOS engineers who worked on the mobile editor. Happy to answer questions if people have them :)