Why Medium Makes Me Cringe (Sometimes)

These are the reasons I feel the Medium platform still has a long way to go to reach their goals

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Like many platforms, the recent upcoming changes to Medium have angered the masses. As with any changes to a big platform, you’ll never be able to please everyone and the unpleased do tend to be the most vocal in the online world.

For those that haven’t read the new rules, here’s the official post from Medium on why they’re changing the way writers earn on Medium.

I, myself, usually take a more ‘wait-and-see’ kind of approach for things of this nature. But that doesn’t mean I don’t have an opinion on the new methods of calculating payouts.

I have a lot of experience in the last decade with setting policies, pricing, and marketing strategies for consumers and always enjoy the challenge of thinking about how different companies approach their customers.

Since Medium’s paying customers are a weird mix of both consumers & product producers, it’s a bit more interesting than usual.

My usual approach to new areas and products for setting up pricing structures and payment plans (and this isn’t too different here, even though its a payout structure), is to try my best to frame the different parameters…