The New Medium Partner Program is Bad for Quality Writing! (2023)

The disadvantages of Medium’s new remuneration scheme and how Medium’s CEO Tony Stubblebine answered my concerns.

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Table of Contents

Introduction
How was the remuneration (2019–2023)?
↳ Referral program
↳ Reading time
How is the remuneration now?
Why do some high-quality articles receive less money?
↳ Lower read-through rate
↳ Less engagement
↳ Boosted less often
How does Medium’s CEO Tony Stubblebine think about it?
What should be changed?
Conclusion
Resources
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Introduction

Medium introduced a new remuneration for users that are part of the Medium partner program. Their target was to take incentives from click-baiting and AI-generated content and give it to human writers that create high-quality articles. In my opinion, these are the right intentions but their new system disadvantages some groups. For people…