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Medium No Longer Distributes Stories
What does that mean for you as a writer?
Not to brag, but I would say that in the past around 85% of my stories were distributed. I don’t know if this was done by real people or computers (artificial intelligence), but I would look forward to seeing that little chosen for further distribution at the top of the stats for my stories.
Being distributed didn’t mean going viral.
It didn’t mean hundreds of reads either.
I used to think it didn’t mean anything. But that’s not true. It did mean something — eyes — more eyes on my stories.
According to Medium’s help page, this was how distribution worked—
Most stories on Medium are also eligible for algorithmic distribution to readers upon publishing. And Medium’s content teams regularly review stories published on the platform, selecting those that exhibit a high level of quality for additional distribution in Medium’s emails, apps, homepage, and more.
So — distributed stories would appear where the eye could easily see them, lots of eyes, and the reader didn’t have to go searching for them, or stumble upon them by chance. Distributed stories would appear in emails, homepages, feeds, etc.
