Aug 22, 2017 · 1 min read
Maybe I’m not understanding how it works, but it seems a backward step — if you saw 10 hearts you knew ten people got value from the article, if you see ten claps it could be one person clapping it x 10 or two people x 5 etc so it is more noise, less signal, which is less value for me as a reader.
That said I tend to read what I like the look of and abandon a lot of stories after a couple of paragraphs if they aren’t of interest, so hardly a deal breaker for using Medium.
