Happy Friday Know something? For a smart person, I can be hella dumb sometimes. I guess we all can. But cripes. lol. Last week, I wrote a piece on Medium asking why my “following” feed is full of people I don’t follow, don’t know, don’t even recognize.
Through some ineptitude on my part, and a poorly implemented "Sign In with Apple" feature, I wound up with two Medium memberships - one paid and one unpaid. Strangely the unpaid one has better recommendations than the paid one, and because of cookies, phase of the moon, or maybe climate change, I can view anything I click on in either list. I will give Medium credit for putting me on to some very talented writers, but as they struggle to see any revenue from their writing, I fear they may give up. Substack is much better for writers, and is doing a reasonable job of introducing new authors in the "Substack Reads" newsletter. Being a pensioner (thanks UK for a great term), my budget for reading material has limits and at some point my list will need trimming. Meanwhile I enjoy great content, and have the satisfaction of knowing that my money is actually helping the people who produce the content.
That's interesting that your unpaid account sees better content. Strange how that works. So then people sign up and the crap starts floating to the top. Might explain why so many people I referred end up leaving.
I think the People and Publications tabs were there until 2020 at least. I agree that showed what I wanted to see. I much prefer that to the current version of what is being shown to me.
I deleted quite a few publications about 2 months ago after reading that suggestion and I still get things I'm not interested in reading. Might need to do it again and see if it helps.
Mine is like what you said. I see tons of people who I don't follow. It's annoying.
Being able to see People and Publications seem like heaven. I only joined in January.
Yeah, it was real nice. I wish they'd bring that back.
Through some ineptitude on my part, and a poorly implemented "Sign In with Apple" feature, I wound up with two Medium memberships - one paid and one unpaid. Strangely the unpaid one has better recommendations than the paid one, and because of cookies, phase of the moon, or maybe climate change, I can view anything I click on in either list. I will give Medium credit for putting me on to some very talented writers, but as they struggle to see any revenue from their writing, I fear they may give up. Substack is much better for writers, and is doing a reasonable job of introducing new authors in the "Substack Reads" newsletter. Being a pensioner (thanks UK for a great term), my budget for reading material has limits and at some point my list will need trimming. Meanwhile I enjoy great content, and have the satisfaction of knowing that my money is actually helping the people who produce the content.
That's interesting that your unpaid account sees better content. Strange how that works. So then people sign up and the crap starts floating to the top. Might explain why so many people I referred end up leaving.
I think the People and Publications tabs were there until 2020 at least. I agree that showed what I wanted to see. I much prefer that to the current version of what is being shown to me.
I deleted quite a few publications about 2 months ago after reading that suggestion and I still get things I'm not interested in reading. Might need to do it again and see if it helps.
Right? I loved being able to see people vs. publications. I much preferred it, too.
Ah Ha! So I'm not alone!
Ditto...I agree with every word of those who commented before me. Was fascinated by Jim's paid vs unpaid journey with Medium