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Jenine Baines's avatar

Hope squared: "there are excellent writers who are NOT getting the exposure they should. I know that. So do you. We all know that. It’s a damn shame. And I hope Medium doesn’t crush their hopes and dreams and aspirations."

What I learned years ago on Medium: don't tie your feelings of self worth as a Creative to Medium's response to what you create. Align yourself with so many Greats who struggled for recognition Write because you can't fathom NOT writing. Write for the one reader who reads you, or the few, or the many. NOT because Medium validates you.

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Joe Luca's avatar

Have you ever watched that old Saturday Night Live skit from the 70s. People go in to order some food - soup, a sandwich, meatloaf, whatever, but they actually only serve - Cheeseburger, Pepsi, Chips!! This is Medium. They say they want quality, well constructed, memorable and all that. But what do we see on the feeds, what gets boosted, what writers grow in views and reads - Cheeseburger, Pepsi, Chips! It just feels like as distraction.

It's like: "Honey, what do you want when Sana Claus comes this year? I want a bike, a car, a doll house the size of our house, I want to meet Miley Cyrus."

Yes, we all want cool things, who asks for lumps of coal and a six-pack of Coke? There are so many good writers on Medium that can do well and bring in new business if GIVEN THE CHANCE. But they don't measure up, apparently. Like the lobster fisherman measuring his catch and throwing back in all the "little" ones. That's what Medium does - throws back the little writers because they don't "measure" up. Sad really.

If writers got 5K reads in May and June why do they suddenly get 432 in July and 321 in August? Something changed. Medium says it's the writer, they didn't do anything different. They did, they changed the algorithm, they changed who sees what writers, they changed what they thought they needed and wanted to grow. It just didn't work.

Now they have those long silly tube-men fluttering in the wind out in front of Medium trying to attract new members.

Other than that - all is good. 🤗😜

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