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2 Ways to See the List of Comments on Medium Even If You Don’t Have Access to Read the Story

Use your curiosity to learn more about UX and product development

Rakia Ben Sassi
4 min readSep 27, 2021

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Having the ability to give comments (or responses) to the articles you read and communicate with the author is a feature that I really love in Medium and that many other well-known big websites don’t offer yet.

But I love as well the possibility to see the audience's reaction regarding some subjects and sometimes I do it before I even read the post itself.

If you are also interested in checking the audience feedback, below I’m sharing 2 ways to open directly the view with the list of responses. These approaches work even if you’re not a Medium member and you don’t have access to see the story itself.

Some of us may have already discovered the first approach by accident, but the second one is not obvious and you need a bit of curiosity to find it.

1. Go to the Author Profile and Open it From There

Here you need to click on the writer's name to go to his profile page, where you will find out the list of all his stories. At the bottom of each story, you can see the “claps…

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Rakia Ben Sassi
Rakia Ben Sassi

Written by Rakia Ben Sassi

Google Developer Expert in Angular, WTM Ambassador, a seasoned software engineer, Content Creator | YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@tekforge

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