Pour me a bowl of oops, I think I broke Medium

Either that or the algorithm is drunk.

Happy Friday

You know what the great thing about August will be? People on Medium can stop talking about the bonus.

Weird side effect to the bonus obsession, though.

Last December I wrote a piece called GoDaddy Offered Employees a $650 Holiday Bonus. It Was a Trick. It’s getting an uptick in views right now.

Apparently it comes up in a search for “Bonus.” lol
Sometimes, people crack me up.

I think I broke my Medium…

Honestly, I was just sick of meta posts. Too many people talking about the bonus even though Kristi told them to cut it out. Plus, people predicting the changes that are going to happen in August. And the eternal Medium how-to tips.

It’s not up to me to tell people what to write about, but it gets a bit much.

So I kind of went on a “dismissing” spree.

Scrolled through the homepage and dismissed every story that was about bonuses or Medium tips. Poof. Gone.

That’s when my homepage got really weird.

It’s like a zombie apocalypse over there. All walking dead and no sign of life. Everything on the homepage is old. I’m seeing posts that are a year old. A few from last January, and a couple from April. It’s kind of strange.

It reminds me of when you go to an abandoned publication and all the posts are old and there’s nothing new. Except that’s my homepage not a dead publication.

Weird thing is, the writers I usually read don’t write meta posts. I’m sure many of them have new and recent posts. Not that I’d know. lol.

So either I broke my homepage, or the algorithm is drunk.

If you write anything new, feel welcome to tag me. In the meantime, I’m just digging the stuff you wrote last year. lol.

/rant

P.S. Have you discovered the new lists feature yet? What do you think?

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Linda