Short Bytes:Recently Medium released its SnapChat Stories like features. It’s calling itSeries.It’s a mobile app only feature, though a Series can be made on Desktop Web as well.Basically, one can split the stories into multiple pages, which can include images and videos or text, which a user would be able to browse through by flipping and swiping right. So Long Tinder Swipes!
Recently Medium release its beta version of a new SnapChat Stories like feature. It’s calling itSeries.
Right now, this Series feature is app only, meaning that you can’t read stories on the desktop website version, but you can create them on the web.
Also with Series, Medium has finally launched center aligning, much to the relief of so many editors of Medium Publications and writers.
It’s not sure, even to Medium team what it wants to make of Series in the coming months, that’s why they have rolled its beta version quickly, and with limited access (that is Stories can be created on Desktop Web or on Mobile, but it can only be seen on the mobile native apps). Medium is trying it as an MVP (Minimum Viable Product), improving it as they go ahead.
Here’s how Series will look like on the app:
This feature is a big experimental ground for fiction writers to slowly unfold their stories in right flips and swipes, which are primarily only heavily associated with Tinder.
Product Manager at Medium Katie Zhu said, “We’re really excited about doing this on mobile,” and that there are no imminent plans to bring the experience to desktop. Which probably says something about Medium’s traffic sources.
