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Brian Lamacraft's avatar

Medium for me is completely dead. Working on developing a Substack.

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James Julian's avatar

Medium is completely resurrected for me.

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Derek Hughes's avatar

Interesting to see you're having the same experience James. My earnings have doubled this month. I'm on course to hit $1800. Which is crazy

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Christina Piccoli's avatar

I'm happy to see you getting views again! I would be interested to see if it lasts for you, or if it's a one-off hit. Keep us posted on your future articles.

I 100% agree with you about Substack. I think it's much harder to make money with than people let on. The top earners were all here early and a lot of them are political journalists. You really have to be on top of providing value consistently to get people to pay.

With that said, I have paid for 4 Substacks so far. lol

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James Julian's avatar

I have a couple member posts planned on this very thing!

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James Julian's avatar

I have another one published today that again seems to be acting normal but I will for sure report back

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Christina Piccoli's avatar

I would love to know your process for coming up with ideas and then sitting down to write them. You come up with great articles that obviously get attention.

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Marcus Musick's avatar

I agree that no one should write all of the time about Medium, but it looks like earnings for all topics are earning roughly the same unless someone gets boosted. The biggest problem with Medium is distribution.

I can see the stats of a lot of articles in different publications and most people struggle to get even 15-20 reads. These articles are about a variety of topics and some are really good, but it seems like those articles are just available to their followers for 6-8 hours before they drop off into the void.

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James Julian's avatar

This was happening to me too but I finally have one taking off … I’ll report back if it’s consistent

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Roland Millward's avatar

I am delighted that Medium is picking up for you. You have put a lot of effort into it.

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James Julian's avatar

Thank you my friend, I hope it does for everyone who publishes good work.

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Michele's avatar

After the changes at Medium, would you recommend not commenting on other writer's articles and not responding when someone posts a comment on your content?

I would like to hear other people's thoughts on the ratio of readers to writers on Medium. I don't think it's 50 to 1 like Tony says.

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The DOG (Digital Old Geezer.)'s avatar

Inaccurate. I've heard many complain about low earnings and they write nothing to do with Medium at all.

Having said that, no doubt, they aren't a fan of Meta content.

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