Indeed. There used to be a different version of the mobile app and it was pretty bad and people kept asking for it to be improved, and then the new version came out and things went from very bad to absolutely awful.

The new app is, as you say, shockingly bad. Many of its functions don't function, and its look and feel is entirely unprofessional, as if it were coded by high school students, though that is probably an insult to smart high school students.

Half the time I can't even clap for comments to my stories in the app. Half the time I can. Often
I can't reply. Sometimes I can. No rhyme or reason.

An up and coming gay historian published an article not too long ago in a publication I run called Prism & Pen, and he downloaded and started to use the Medium app just for that purpose. I felt so embarrassed when he complained to me about how ridiculously dysfunctional the app is.

He asked me half in jest if they made it so terrible on purpose, as some kind of tongue-in-cheek joke.

I've been writing here for 4 years, and the app has always been just awful, but now it's beyond awful. It's embarrassing.