Hey Medium: Where the Heck are All My Readers?

Please stand up and be counted or get kicked to the curb!

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Just kidding — I love my dysfunctional Medium family and I would never kick any of you to the curb (no more than I would do my real life family). 💔💔💔

But that doesn’t mean I won’t let folks have a piece of my mind, lovingly of course.

I hate to always seem like a whiner or complainer, or like I’m never satisfied, but I can’t help but speak up, when I feel like something is off.

I may not always know exactly what it is that’s amiss, but I for sure know when something’s just not right, or doesn’t add up.

Once again, here on Medium, I sense something’s happening. Normally, I’m bothered, because when the numbers are off, it means my earnings are down.

Okay — that’s a given.

But having readers show up and read, but earning a low amount when they do, is not the same as not having them show up at all (and of course, earning a low amount when they don’t).

I’ve accepted the fact that many of my Medium related stories won’t earn as much as other stories, nor will Medium automatically distribute those stories.

But dammit, I draw the line at disappearing my readers. 😞

I mean, come on Medium, WTF?

I don’t know if it’s the website, and the platform’s crazy algorithms or what.

I’m really not sure, that’s why I started this story, by addressing you readers, as if for some reason, many of you have stopped showing up.

Was it something I said…?

Is it time for a little quality control?

I don’t know what’s going on, but I don’t mind letting my readers know that I’m willing to do some quality control, but first I have to know where it hurts.

Over the past two weeks, I notice that my stats are way lower than they typically are.

This has been gradually happening each day, causing me to keep an eye on which of my readers are even bothering to occasionally show up.