Thanks for the kind words, Sherry.
As for Medium’s wonky algorithm, I’ve been seeing much more of people I follow lately. I wonder if there’s so much engagement with the site that it gets ‘stretched thin’, and periods of not seeing what we follow are kind of like rolling blackouts?
There’s that business, and now the new info that they’re tying claps into a way to allocate more money to writers behind the paywall whose stories get more “engagement.” I don’t get to read those stories, but still it’s putting extra tension into my life that I just don’t need. I feel strangely obligated to start doing more than use the claps like the “recommend” button. But this ‘deciding how many’ feels weird, aggravating and oddly time consuming. Not how I want to feel when I just want to read another story.
