I quickly whipped up a bookmarklet to view any Medium article in scribe.rip for anyone interested:<p><pre><code> javascript:location.hostname.includes("medium.com")?location.assign("https://scribe.rip"+location.pathname+location.search+location.hash):location.assign("https://scribe.rip");</code></pre>
If you have an iOS device, I whipped up a quick and dirty Siri Shortcut:
<a href="https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/d6782bdf84f94612a197ef410ec9f51e" rel="nofollow">https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/d6782bdf84f94612a197ef410ec...</a><p>Once installed, you can long tap on any medium link, select share, then pick Scribe 4 Medium from your quick actions.<p>The link opens in Safari.<p>Edit: if you use it on medium links within the app, Scribe adds a link.scribe subdomain which throws a SSL warning and creates a broken link.
Could be due to the ?source=link in the medium app url. I’m trying to clean it out.
Not sure if that’s an intended functionality from scribe tho<p>Edit 2: nope it’s medium cloaked links. Will fix it later :)
Historical note: In 1980-81, Brian Reid invented the Scribe markup language and processor, basically a predecessor to HTML and Markdown; a successor to RUNOFF; and simpler than Knuth's then-recent TeX. Scribe led to Reid's getting the ACM's Grace Murray Hopper award. I used The Final Word's version of Scribe and Emacs to produce camera-ready copy for my first book.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribe_(markup_language)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribe_(markup_language)</a>
There is also the browser extension Make Medium Readable Again[1], one thing that I like about it is that it removes Medium's lazy loading[2]<p>[1] <a href="https://makemediumreadable.com/" rel="nofollow">https://makemediumreadable.com/</a><p>[2] if you have a fast connection you may have no idea why it's bad, try to load an image-heavy Medium article on a slow connection and you will see what I mean (indistinguishable blobs of colour for about 30 seconds, then finally full res images, with no in-between).
An alternative for all text-heavy websites: <a href="https://archive.is/" rel="nofollow">https://archive.is/</a> debloats, that is archives a markup-only webpage free of javascript, dealing admirably well even with SPAs.
There are quite a few chrome extensions that just fix the referer on medium, and work just fine. You can also trivially use your own version, as well as limit them to only medium.com.<p>(Or use one of the more generic referer rewriters)
Padding is a little big on mobile for my taste, maybe you could look into it? Especially on smaller phones every horizontal pixel matters for a great reading experience.<p>Great project otherwise!
after ad blocking, since many websites are API driven, alternative frontends are another user movement? I saw the PR for scribe.rip to be added to <a href="https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect</a> - a Browser extension redirecting twitter, instagram etc. I welcome this development.
If someone uses a medium.com subdomain converting it is a little more work.<p>For example, this link from the current HN homepage before and after:<p><a href="https://kgizdov.medium.com/the-efficiency-of-microsoft-e50ea81f69f5" rel="nofollow">https://kgizdov.medium.com/the-efficiency-of-microsoft-e50ea...</a><p><a href="https://scribe.rip/@kgizdov/the-efficiency-of-microsoft-e50ea81f69f5" rel="nofollow">https://scribe.rip/@kgizdov/the-efficiency-of-microsoft-e50e...</a>