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I do not recommend "Medium" which is a writer/article site , not because of the product, but because of the lack of account support. The first year I subscribed, my husband was able to read the many great articles, but I had access.This last year, I subscribed and was able to use it almost 3 months. When I started getting the message that I needed to pay, I sent them emails and proof of my payment for the year. No answer. Repeated emails with proof of purchase have continued, and unfortunatly so did their non response.

Medium.com presents itself, to those who write for it, as an organic, warm, family of poets and writers. It is welcoming and warm and there are some excellent poets and writers. However, it is also a place where jealous, arrogant, ignorant poets and writers weaponize their words and use them to slice and destroy those who are more popular. One would also assume that Medium.com would understand what "poetic license" is, or even what poetry is. Poetry can accept as "real" that which is fantasy, that which is a person's personal view of reality. So a poet or writer is allowed to present his fabulous Greek wedding, with videos and music and a seaside resort, to a fellow woman poet of his liking whom he is NOT marrying, while other writers and poets "attend" and "dance" and otherwise "enjoy themselves." This is what poetry can be: fiction. Or a woman writes poetry about her son who seems like he is a little boy. In fact, he is a grown man who is a little boy in his mind, who who watches Mr. Rodgers and sings along with Snow White and does his best to manipulate his Mom to get a hot fudge sundae. But, since she is at the top of the ranking of poets, a jealous and not so poetic male poet inquires public records about her background, discovers not only that her son is not a little boy, but where she lives, her phone number, how much money she has in bank accounts, where she has lived, who she has been married to, all sorts of "personal" info, and he publishes it all on-line, adding that she is a liar and is writing about "her little boy" just to get attention for herself. Suddenly "hate poems" that refer to her and her almost 500 published poems are being spread all over Medium.com. Her "friends" and fellow poets on Medium, out of spite, jealousy, or simply ignorance, actively participate in this "word weaponizing" and cut her down. Medium.com allows this "hate campaign," and does nothing to protect her. She is a top-ranking poet who brings almost 8000 hits a month and has 1600 followers in ONE YEAR of writing.

When I subscribed to Medium Corporation's service a year ago I did not read the fine print that they automatically make the annual charge recurring, now unwittingly incurring another annual fee. I now find there is no way to recover my loss. This is unconscionable. There probably was no clear indication that the annual fee was set to recur. Do not deal with this rip-off company. Stay well clear of these rip-off merchants.

I paid my $50 but every time I click on a story, it says that I have exhausted all of the free stories that I had. The message says that I need to become a member to continue. Total scam, and EXTREMELY liberal! Stay FAR away from this outfit.

I’ve been a member for several months and within the past month, every article just stops and will not allow me to read, Any complete article It Freezes two paragraphs in Infuriated

There's a good number of writers who are politically biased and cannot report fairly on a national level and seem to be repeating communist propaganda. I believe this is called unrestricted warfare and are carried out by these writers attempting to change the minds of West to make people believe they are fair and peaceful communist countries are instead of numerous atrocities and negligence toward their own people. They mentioned no wrong doing of these governments and instead attack legitimate groups.

Forces you to sign up in order to copy code from their pages, then automatically signs you up for a daily email digest. Absolutely unbelievable

The company doesn't respect my wishes to not get any emails. I'm still receiving Medium Daily Digest and when I double checked the preferences everything was in order. Waiting for a reply from the support team.