What are responses?

At the bottom of every Medium story, there’s a text field where you can respond to the story you just read:

When you find a story on Medium that inspires, enrages, or otherwise engages you, and you want to respond, just start typing.

After you publish your response, it becomes its own stand-alone story on Medium. It is available on your profile page, and distributed out to your Medium followers. It also includes a link back to the original story to which you are responding.

What responses do I see?

• If the author of the original story writes a response to their own story
• If the author of the original story recommends a response by another author
• If you are logged in to your Medium account and someone you follow recommends a response