Medium and cross-posted updates

Brad Feld wrote a post today about cross-posting to Medium.

He says: “…when I publish something on WordPress, update it, and then publish it again, it doesn’t update on Medium.”

I’ve been theorizing why Medium doesn’t flow-through updates from external CMSes.

I think it may have to do with the highlighting feature.

Suppose one of my posts appears on Medium…

• Then someone highlights a section and comments on it.
• Then I update the post.
• What happens to the highlights?
• The offset could have changed.
• The text might have been deleted.
• Or the text might have changed, rendering the annotation obsolete.