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Should You Stay or Should You Go?

Only time will tell

Marcus Musick
Never Stop Writing
3 min readJan 13, 2025

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Update 1/13/23 — It looks like the issue is due to fraud and not a lack of funds from investors. You can check out this article for additional information — https://medium.com/the-narrative-arc/medium-to-fix-fraud-issues-as-writers-rage-d6cd69bf15b0

I wasn’t planning to write yet another article about Medium.

Unfortunately, the people in charge of Medium are terrible at communication. I literally have to go around like I’m on a scavenger hunt to find comments from Medium staff members buried in the comments of random articles.

Initially, I thought the earnings crashed due to them “tweaking” how they calculate payments. One of the staff members even mentioned in a comment that they are investigating the issue.

Unfortunately, I read an even more concerning comment from the CEO in another article.

I’ve attached the screenshot below.

Screenshot — Credit Susie Kearley 🐹 Guinea pig slave

If this is the new Medium, then things are looking bleak. I’m not even talking about the writers, but I’m talking about the platform itself. Writing practically for free is not a sustainable business model…

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Marcus Musick
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Written by Marcus Musick

Freelance Writer for almost 8 years. Founder of Never Stop Writing. You can reach out to me at https://substack.com/@marcusmusick.

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