Medium Just Changed Its Code Of Curation — But Hasn’t Announced It Yet
It’s a game-changer. They’ve never done this before.
For the past few years, advice on how to crack the code of curation on Medium has been booming.
Getting your article curated is the holy grail. For many writers on this platform, it’s their ultimate goal, to have articles curated by Medium’s editors.
Writers eagerly search after being curated because this means their article will be distributed additionally on Medium’s owned channels such as their homepage, via their emails, and apps.
Medium’s editorial team regularly reviews published stories. They hand-pick those that ‘meet (their) distribution standards and exhibit a high level of quality.’
Still, I’ve never seen Medium curate an article about #Medium. Nor have I seen one go viral.
Okay. But what does this mean exactly and what’s the exciting update?
Keep on reading. I will explain it to you.
99% of Medium-related articles won’t get curated
When I started writing about ‘writing on Medium’ in May 2021 I wondered why my articles didn’t get curated.