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Following up on our announcement last week:
As new questions arise, we’ll update the FAQ at the bottom of this page. One question that came up was around topics on the stats page. Why were they removed? From the FAQ:
We removed topics from the story stats page in order to reduce the focus on topics in distribution. Because our recommendations engine uses several different signals to distribute relevant stories to readers, such as popularity, your reading history, readers who are similar to you, etc., …
Medium is becoming more relational in order to give writers more freedom and agency over building and maintaining relationships with their audience. Our goal is to create the best of both worlds: An open and simple platform where anyone can publish — once, occasionally, or often — that also allows for deeper connections between readers and writers. We want to simplify the publishing process. Today we made the following changes:
September is for new beginnings. Getting organized. Starting fresh, coming out of the brief lull of August. This year, August was different. Instead of traveling for weddings or vacations, it was staycations, maybe moving, and if possible, taking a break or at least slowing down to reflect and recharge. Perhaps in that time, you came up with new creative ideas to get started on this month.
To kick off the newsletter, we’re sharing a few highlights from Morgan Jerkins’ interview in Forge by Kelli María Korducki. …
We’ve had a busy summer.
Last month, we announced new features coming to our publishing tools — specifically, more customizability, frictionless reading, and a better space for short(er)-form content. Last week, we announced our new mobile app, which is a complete rethink of how to seamlessly keep up with your favorite writers — and find new ones. These new versions are currently in beta and opening up more widely over the next few weeks as we incorporate user feedback and make them better.
These two pieces are just part of a comprehensive upgrade to the platform, which we are in the process of implementing. …
Since launching Medium Newsletters in June, we’ve been happy to see many publications on Medium use them. Our last post noted improvements to come and we’re excited to share our latest progress.
If you use Newsletters, you may have recently noticed a change to the editing tool. …
For millions of people, Medium’s mobile app is their window to discover and read stories from writers they trust and subject-matter experts across a wide variety of topics. …
We appreciate the feedback about the language in our updated Terms of Service that focuses on your content rights. We first responded by preparing a short blog post explaining the updates.
We’ve now edited the Terms of Service to more clearly reflect what we said in that post.
Here’s the passage we’ve updated:
Rights and Ownership
You retain your rights to any content you submit, post or display on or through the Services.
Unless otherwise agreed in writing, by submitting, posting, or displaying content on or through the Services, you grant Medium a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, fully paid, and sublicensable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, publicly perform and display your content and any name, username or likeness provided in connection with your content in all media formats and distribution methods now known or later developed on the Services. …
**Edit 8/19/20: We have updated the language in the terms for more clarification. You can read more here:
You may have noticed a banner across all of Medium notifying you of our upcoming new Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. We’ve received some questions about the updates, so we’d like to give you more context and information about them.
While some of the language in these policies has changed, Medium’s fundamental beliefs (and behaviors) have not. Here’s the deal:
We’re in the second half of 2020. Amid the challenge of the pandemic, writing goals set at the beginning of the year may have had to adjust. It’s helpful to take a moment and reflect on where your creative practice is at. New insights can arise, sometimes spontaneously, sometimes through introspecting. What thought patterns are useful? What parts of the creative process are most energizing? What assumptions can be examined?
Finding inspiration and energy for creative projects right now can feel difficult. And at the same time, it’s these creative projects that may bring meaning and delight. “It’s hard to come up with fresh new ideas when you’ve been staring at the same four walls for five months,” writes Amy Shearn, sharing several quick ways to regain inspiration. My favorite one: “we need moments of ‘ordinary, if still transcendent, awe’ — times where we feel connected to the world and each other and remember what really matters. To get a quick hit of awe, you can try immersion in natural environments, watching a sunset or the stars, looking at art, or listening to music.” …
Every day, both new and established writers flock to Medium to share their ideas. They come because Medium makes it easy to write, to share, and to find new audiences for their work. …
