Medium definitely is not the place it used to be. I don’t believe it offers the same opportunity it did to help writers break-out. Some will still succeed here. But they clearly regulate and cap how well articles can do within Medium. My own stats have changed dramatically over the past few months. I still get around the same views (I average between 650,000 and a million monthly views on Medium)— but far more of my traffic comes from outside sources due to my own platform, due to people who follow my work, and sometimes dumb luck. But within Medium itself, it’s clear they are controlling and capping things much more. Just because people clap for your stuff doesn’t mean it’s actually going into more newsfeeds. There is far less trickle effect of traffic. It just seems to stop immediately after a day or 2, despite a large number of claps. Medium keeps working harder and harder to control the platform — which I believe is good for them but ultim...