OK, I don’t mean to make this sound like a pity party, but I don’t feel welcomed here.
I’ve spent almost 30 days writing on this platform and have (thusfar) gained 40 followers. Thank you to those of you who have reached out to me. Some of you have even left comments. Another ‘thank you.’
For almost 12 years I wrote on another platform, Hub Pages. Once upon a time, it was a great gathering place for writers to hone their craft — write, share, comment. We became a community. Through Hub Pages, I gained real friends across the country and around the world.
And then, the great take-over happened. Hub Pages was acquired by Maven, and like associates employed by a retail store that is bought out by the competition, we were slowly pushed out of the door.
Now, Maven will tell a totally different story. They were merely making adjustments in their “presentation” to be more with the times. Our little community didn’t pencil out in their financial plans and so our ability to comment was stripped away.
Why? We were told that ‘they’ were given a new company ‘template’ that would not accommodate comments and it would take a ‘few months’ to make the proper programming adjustments. As of August 2022, we are at 3 years, and waiting.
I have a dear friend here on Medium who introduced me to this place. She is a great (and prolific) writer — churning out at least one article daily. And, her topic(s) are things that seem to resonate well with this group of readers/writers. She writes on common ailments and diseases (she’s a retired RN) and on social issues.
I acknowledge that those are vital and important topics, but they’re really not my jam. I write about food — specifically food history.
Boring!
I can’t be what I’m not. I can’t write about topics that don’t really excite me.
And, I’m busy. I can’t write one article every 24 hours. I simply can’t.
Where do I go from here? The promise of ‘100’ followers seems an impossible dream and with such a dreadfully low number of ‘views, reads, read ratio, and fans’ my continuation here seems pointless.
Linda Lum (Facebook, HubPages, Pinterest) is an retired budget analyst for the Federal government, wife, mother, author, and lover of anything and everything to do with food history.
Books: "Past and Present," "How Corned Beef Became Irish"