Something slightly annoying and mildly disturbing about Medium

How well, or how badly, does Medium respond to a bit of public (or not so public) constructive criticism?

Ever noticed you get a limited spectrum of stories in your “Recommended for you” list of stories? And a further list of recommendations based on your reading history?

No matter how you’ve tried to widen your horizons, you get the same old authors coming round, again and again, mostly with the same old issues.

Don’t get me wrong, many have worthy causes.

But, after a while, after their message is no longer something new, something no-one else is talking about…

It just becomes noise.

And you know, deep down, there is an infinity of other uniquely new issues out there that you could be reading about, but are not getting to see.

“News”.

Because the system is filtering it out.

I believe this is partly driven by the fact that many authors are, or have become dependent on Medium for an income.

It might even be their sole source of income.

Everyone needs a living, of course. If they had that, unconditionally, they would be free to write about whatever they felt like writing about.

Or not bother writing at all, if they have nothing new to say.