I used Medium a few times, but just never felt comfortable providing them with my content.

It's been so long now that I had no idea they'd put up a paywall. Make me feel like I had it right from the git go now.

Aside from that... this sounds like it's got to be close to the dumbest thing they could've done. It's akin to slapping your audience in the face every time they show up.

I hardly ever click on anything from WaPo or the NY Times. I have no problem with them charging for their content, they both do some great work, I just cannot pay for it and it's frustrating to run into their paywall.

Thanks for pointing this out. I'd still have been clueless about this had you not.