Tags Become Topics: The New Topics System on Medium
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6 min readSep 11, 2021
Tags are replacing topic pages — so you can write for audiences who care deeply about your subject matter, and find stories on any topic you love — from AI to Comics to Art
On 10th September 2021 Medium posted in its 3 Min Read blog that Tag Names will now become Topic Names. Topics will be expanded to become more personalized. This means that Medium users will now be able to follow former Tag Names. The Tag Names will become Topic Names. Here is a link to the article, followed by my thoughts.
With Tags being Topics now, as long as we can easily follow stories under Tag names somehow, apart from the Search function, this evolution will help get our stories read, I think. 😃
- Medium’s background is that Topic names were too broad. For example, “money” ranged from stories about financial planning to the stock market. My reply to this is that the Topic Names were not too broad for some of us, such as me, plus if I wanted to narrow my search I would do a search upon my specific search criteria using the search function at the top-right of my…
