How About Rewarding All the Outside Traffic with Boosts?

Open letter to the folks at Medium

Christina M. Ward

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2 min readMar 3

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Hey, Tony Stubblebine and all the folks at Medium. While we writers love Medium, we also need a little help.

I was here in 2019 when writers had a lot of hope for earning decent money here. It was exhilarating! But one by one, my writer friends have trickled away from Medium. Because…

Christina M. Ward

Written by Christina M. Ward

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ILLUMINATION

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