January Updates from Medium
I got a Gmail from Medium platform about January updates and stats.
634,000: Number of unpublished drafts created.
74,900: Number of new stories posted in publications.
Nearly 4,000: Number of accounts suspended in January for Partner Program abuse.
They only suspended 4,000 accounts in January. It’s less compared to the month of December. I can still see many spam accounts running in Medium.
Updates:
If a story was featured by a publication, we added "featured" labels on story pages and writer stats pages.
In your notifications, we now show response previews so you can more easily see how readers are reacting to your work.
We made it easier to report and hide comments you don’t want to see on your post.
These updates are okay actually but they weren’t updated anything about earnings still.
Removing "meta" stories from the paywall:
You’re free to write meta stories, we just don’t want Partner Program funds going to them. Payments seem to incentivize extra navel gazing and unwanted get-rich-quick culture. In March, we will start notifying writers when we see their meta stories behind the paywall, and then begin removing them.
They didn’t say anything about ERP and also on what basis earnings are calculated.
