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I love the idea but its very restrictive

The platform, just like other American platforms, manipulates algorithms to promote only the topics that the government wants to push forward and nothing else. If you write something deemed undesirable by those in power, the article will have zero views, zero reads, zero nothing. I sent an email asking their support about how their algorithms work, no response. It is super clear now. I'm moving to a different platform where free speech exists.

After reading so many bad reviews of Medium, I really feel I have to disagree. I've read plenty of articles here, on a few different topics. I have found them all to be good quality and well written. Some I categorically disagree with, but I have never viewed a contributor as being idiotic or naive, or displaying any overt bias. Politically, I'm hard left (not FAR left, I'm unreservedly democratic), so would my own bias colour how I see a site that it is being accused of being overly liberal or overly 'woke'? Very possibly, but I can't recall thinking that I was seeing way too much or too extreme a bias. My experience from other media is that those who decry someone being 'too woke' are usually offended by the smallest whiff of it. I've written a couple of articles for it myself. Coming back to membership, I'm going to see if I can build my profile more. We'll see.

This company MEDIUM.COM uses unethical practices to claim subscriptions via paypal. They don't show up on paypal in the list of subscriptions because they characterize it as a pre-approved automatic payment. When you cancel , it just pops up again a year later… 50 euros.

Medium was a great experience for me as a writer. It has a huge number of writers and editors ranging from best-selling and celebrity to rank beginners. For those who want to get serious about writing, there are plenty of members offering incredibly valuable advice. I disagree with some of the bad reviews here; I can't speak to the tech & payment problems, but Medium has a lot going for it. As a platform it's easy to use with high domain ranking. You'll get better exposure here than on most other platforms. The platform's content contains a lot of crap but it also hosts sterling writers and publications like The Atlantic and the NY Times. Read the content you're interested in and the algorithms will catch on. Unfortunately, I've reduced my rating because, as others have noted here, Medium is a hotbed of far-left SJW extremism and in the past year appears to have affected the staff. People DO get banned for having unwoke opinions. I'm one of them. They also take down stories they don't like. They suspended two of my articles and the last one which criticized the Holy Sacred Transfolk. Friends still on the platform tell me Medium is cracking down on ANY criticism of the trans movement and one writer actually had the balls to write about how they threatened to take him down if he criticized transwomen again. DO. NOT. CRITICIZE. THE. TRANS. COMMUNITY. EVER. on Medium. They are, like Caesar's wife, beyond reproach. The platform turns a blind eye to blatant man-hating feminists and white-hating black bigots. However, they've also got some really terrific black and feminist writers too, and credible, qualified people writing about fascinating subjects in their wheelhouse. For the rest, you can mute or block anyone you don't like. If you don't upset the snowflakes, Medium's great for writers. For all my harsh words I learned so, so much. I will always be grateful to them for the opportunity of blogging there for a few years. I wish they'd just tone down the SJW extremism. So I republished the 'verboten' stories elsewhere and no heads exploded :)

I love medium so much!. It helps me to train my attitude on reading article / book.

An absolutely abysmal platform run by incompetents . The site runs in a draconian manner . I heavily criticised a writer who is famous for his constant negative anti Western writings bans and was promptly banned . I had used medium to show case poetry principally. This brittle platform could not handle criticism of a fellow writer . An immediate blanket ban. No explanations ever given since . This site is “woke” to the worst degree

I accidentally stumbled upon an article by Salete Cravo claiming to be a selfmade millionaire and making ridiculous claims about the amount of money you can make using certain sites. The examples and 'evidence' she provides can easily be checked and turned out to be completely false which makes the article a total scam with its only purpose to lure people into clicking on dubious links. Having only 18 Twitter followers is a bit low for a self made millionaire, don't you think? Apparently she has more of those 'articles' on this site. If medium.com had a bit of self respect they should ban 'writers' like that.