I left but as a reader not a writer. I found the place where I could check the writers I wanted to see and unchecked all the others!
Not sure why I had reader’s fatigue. Just got tired of being tricked into opening an article that really held no interest after first two sentences or was merely repeating previous post information! Like your posts tho-always entertaining and mostly informative.
Hi Linda, I vote to write about it. You have a voice in Medium. My reading has dwindled to a handful of writers that consistently write on topics of interest. Like Kathy below, I've had reader's fatigue. I hope things can un-stupid themselves.
I left Medium in June. I had slowed my blogging to a trickle then stopped.
I decided to do this after giving a lot of thought to my target audience. They, for the most part, aren’t on Medium. Add to the fact that it’s hard to develop an engaged conversation there, so I left.
A whole lot of effort is going into TikTok and Instagram. There’s excellent engagement on TikTok, but the conversion to super fans is easier on Instagram. It’s been a fascinating journey.
Medium’s newest model sounds awful. Very, very stupid. 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
I submitted my first two blog posts and earned not a penny. My mistake was in the title. I should have used ‘How to Retire on Two Blogs’.
What I did earn was the value of experience from editors and founders of publications. Other writers shared their opinions, suggestions, and mistakes. The #1 value I learned was the quality of the content.
I recently penned an observational piece for the years I've been on Medium, watching the cycle of new medium algorithm slamming folks earnings, people figuring out how to profit from the change, then selling classes and systems to make money from Medium until Medium changes it all over again.
I credit Medium for constantly stirring the pot. The point is to write, not to figure out how to game the system to make money.
It's been an impressive drop in earning, that's for sure. I'm back to making barely a $1 a day. I was never a huge earner but was happier at $100 a month. So a drop of 2/3 for me. I'm moving on.
It certainly has been a weird environment the last few months. I puke every time I see an earnings title. But I'm here to just write because it's simple and earns a bit of dough. I've given up ever thinking I'll earn $1000 for another story but I'm still getting a few hundred dollars a month for my back catalog.
Last month, I earned $.26 on Medium. Because I couldn't write much. But I still published 8 short articles. Being paid by reader time is awful. Especially if there are readers like my daughter, Christy, who has a photographic/eidetic memory, and whose brain photographs a page of text and reads it while she's turning to the next page. Zero reading time, even though every word was read.
And I read that Amazon has decided to pay KDP authors based on READING TIME instead of books purchased, royalties calculated by the price of the book! That little change dropped royalties per purchased book by 50%--but ONLY if the book is read all the way to the end. No limit on how long the purchased book sits waiting to be read. Even if a reader pays $10 for the book, which earned $7 previously, read or not, the new royalty for that book will be based on page numbers, whenever they're read. Let's say the $10 has 100 pages. Each page read earns the author (Are you ready? Sitting down?) HALF A PENNY PER PAGE!!!!! 50 cents. $1 for 200 pages. My new book is about 240 pages. That's $1.20.
I’ve honestly had to stop looking at stats and read time. I try to have confidence in what I post and let that speak. That’s it. I recognize publishing as skill-building. I have found such a great community on Substack anyway so I’m finding fulfillment in other ways.
The meta and money-making posts have probably reached critical mass and hopeful will tumble under their own weight. I just check in with who I follow and read the occasional interesting article. Things come in waves and maybe in another six months when things have settled, those who chose to stay around will get better returns.
I left but as a reader not a writer. I found the place where I could check the writers I wanted to see and unchecked all the others!
Not sure why I had reader’s fatigue. Just got tired of being tricked into opening an article that really held no interest after first two sentences or was merely repeating previous post information! Like your posts tho-always entertaining and mostly informative.
Thanks, take care-
Kathy
Hi Linda, I vote to write about it. You have a voice in Medium. My reading has dwindled to a handful of writers that consistently write on topics of interest. Like Kathy below, I've had reader's fatigue. I hope things can un-stupid themselves.
For what it’s worth, I spend less time reading at Medium than I did 18 months ago. Too many articles that are just meh.
There’s 4-5 authors whose work I regularly read…including yours and that’s it.
The bloom is off the 🌹
I left Medium in June. I had slowed my blogging to a trickle then stopped.
I decided to do this after giving a lot of thought to my target audience. They, for the most part, aren’t on Medium. Add to the fact that it’s hard to develop an engaged conversation there, so I left.
A whole lot of effort is going into TikTok and Instagram. There’s excellent engagement on TikTok, but the conversion to super fans is easier on Instagram. It’s been a fascinating journey.
Medium’s newest model sounds awful. Very, very stupid. 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
I don't think you should jump on the bandwagon. As you said, it's been done to death. You have so many more interesting things to write about.
I submitted my first two blog posts and earned not a penny. My mistake was in the title. I should have used ‘How to Retire on Two Blogs’.
What I did earn was the value of experience from editors and founders of publications. Other writers shared their opinions, suggestions, and mistakes. The #1 value I learned was the quality of the content.
I recently penned an observational piece for the years I've been on Medium, watching the cycle of new medium algorithm slamming folks earnings, people figuring out how to profit from the change, then selling classes and systems to make money from Medium until Medium changes it all over again.
I credit Medium for constantly stirring the pot. The point is to write, not to figure out how to game the system to make money.
I've always liked stars 🌟. Great post! I don't know if Medium will wise up or not, but for now I'll keep on keepin' on.
However, it is demoralizing to get paid so little for something you enjoy, but I suppose I I can always leave if I'm so inclined.
The rewards for being are more of a social nature, and Thank God for that, because the $$ sucks!
Thanks Linda. I expect they will do something. I'm just not excited about writing on medium anymore...
It's been an impressive drop in earning, that's for sure. I'm back to making barely a $1 a day. I was never a huge earner but was happier at $100 a month. So a drop of 2/3 for me. I'm moving on.
Write about it. Thanks for this. Also, please write if it changes back to 2019 model so I can be on it all the time again.
It certainly has been a weird environment the last few months. I puke every time I see an earnings title. But I'm here to just write because it's simple and earns a bit of dough. I've given up ever thinking I'll earn $1000 for another story but I'm still getting a few hundred dollars a month for my back catalog.
Good to know you're on the job LInda :)
Last month, I earned $.26 on Medium. Because I couldn't write much. But I still published 8 short articles. Being paid by reader time is awful. Especially if there are readers like my daughter, Christy, who has a photographic/eidetic memory, and whose brain photographs a page of text and reads it while she's turning to the next page. Zero reading time, even though every word was read.
And I read that Amazon has decided to pay KDP authors based on READING TIME instead of books purchased, royalties calculated by the price of the book! That little change dropped royalties per purchased book by 50%--but ONLY if the book is read all the way to the end. No limit on how long the purchased book sits waiting to be read. Even if a reader pays $10 for the book, which earned $7 previously, read or not, the new royalty for that book will be based on page numbers, whenever they're read. Let's say the $10 has 100 pages. Each page read earns the author (Are you ready? Sitting down?) HALF A PENNY PER PAGE!!!!! 50 cents. $1 for 200 pages. My new book is about 240 pages. That's $1.20.
I may not publish my book.
And I've deactivated my membership on Medium.
What's happening? Substack values writers. That's why I'm here. Glad you're here, too, Linda.
I’ve honestly had to stop looking at stats and read time. I try to have confidence in what I post and let that speak. That’s it. I recognize publishing as skill-building. I have found such a great community on Substack anyway so I’m finding fulfillment in other ways.
The meta and money-making posts have probably reached critical mass and hopeful will tumble under their own weight. I just check in with who I follow and read the occasional interesting article. Things come in waves and maybe in another six months when things have settled, those who chose to stay around will get better returns.