Actually, it's not.
In fact, it’s unusual for me to have had so little trouble doing so for as long as I have.
When you’ve been involved with IT at the kind of level I have been during my (decidedly varied, I grant you ¹) career, you learn to recognise certain things … approaches, techniques, paradigms … so, trust me when I say that Medium is designed and developed by people who are far from as clever as they fancy themselves to be.
They constantly make changes to the way the site functions ² and, as a result, most of the time, thanks to the way I go about things …
… I am unable to applaud or comment on a great many publications.
The last six months-to-a-year, I’ve had no such difficulties, however, because I reconfigured my browser settings somewhat — specifically in order to try and resolve that issue.
They would appear to have made some behind-the-scenes changes again though … (I think it’s possibly how they justify being kept on the payroll) … meaning that things have probably returned to normal and I will probably find I can’t applaud/comment on publications again.
So, for me at least, it’s probably simply a return to business as usual.
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¹ Dustman, teacher, linguist, barman, nightwatch, IT professional, psychologist, educationalist, DJ/producer.
² Never for the better either — not only are their technological choices poor but their ‘design’ decisions only merit being so termed because there is no other term (apart from ‘shit’) that describes the category of phenomenon into which they fall.
