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Do You Miss Posting From Your Phone?

Yeah. Me too. Whose terrible idea was it to get rid of the mobile authoring function?

7 min readMay 30, 2022
Photo by Persnickety Prints on Unsplash

The last three and a half years have been magical, Medium. Before I get on your case about the, dare I say redonculous decision to delete digital functionality that already existed, and in fact, worked pretty well — spare me a moment to reminisce.

At first, this social writing platform was a bit of an enigma to me. My early posts here were entirely untethered from any precedent. Probably a bit clueless and naive, in fact. I had no concept of what to write, how to format things, or who I was speaking to.

But after a while, the two of us really started to hit a groove.

I learned how to format my posts. Then I figured out how to credit, and recenter hero images. Later, I learned how to add links in a way that didn’t interrupt my readers' flow.

I learned about writing for my people, and I learned the importance of using the word YOU in my title from a class I took with

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The Badassery community I found through these two guys is truly special. It helped me to bridge the gap between personal authenticity and professional productivity with help from many of the folks there including

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Kaia Maeve Tingley
Kaia Maeve Tingley

Written by Kaia Maeve Tingley

Queen Bee 🐝 of the #TechHippies ☮️✌🏻👩🏻‍💻. I eat lighting ⚡️ breathe thunder 💥 and bleed rainbows 🌈 #WebMakersCircle #onelove

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