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What the @#$%*! Medium?

Why isn’t Medium acknowledging the January earnings problem?

Anthony (Tony/Pcunix) Lawrence 👀
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2 min readJan 12, 2025

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We do not know what is happening to Medium Partner Program earnings in January. Scott Lamb said they are “investigating”, but he hasn’t said anything else. It’s worrisome, yes, but we do not know why this is happening and my guess is that Medium doesn’t either.

But that doesn’t excuse not publicly acknowledging the issue.

There should be banners on the Stats and Partner Program page. There should be a story at the Medium Blog.

People are quitting Friends of Medium. Some are threatening to leave — maybe some already have left. This could spiral if Medium continues to ignore it.

Maybe the bosses are looking at this and thinking, “Well, it’s a tiny percentage of membership.”

Yes, it might be, but what percentage of members now are new members who don’t know what to expect? What percentage don’t even know enough to submit a Help request?

implied that this has nothing to do with their recent payout tweaking. This assurance comes from a company that had delayed stats for three weeks and did not know why! I was a business system computer troubleshooter for thirty-five years — until you can fix the…

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Anthony (Tony/Pcunix) Lawrence 👀
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Written by Anthony (Tony/Pcunix) Lawrence 👀

Retired Unix Consultant. I write tech and humor mostly but sometimes other things. See my Lists if your interests are specific.

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