What about the older articles?

Medium Will Remove Your Meta Articles By March (From the Paywall)

Because they don’t want your unwanted get-rich-quick culture

I guess there are only a few options left for me to get a degree in tech or psychology in a month or less.

Screenshot of the email from Medium about a hour ago. 9:22 AM EST.

Medium will be sending out notifications to writers when they see their meta stories behind the paywall and then begin to remove them in March.

This sounds like a two-week notice before you get fired.

Things are about to get very serious and interesting.

You did notice that they are removing stories about Medium instead of about anything else.

Does that mean that writing is still okay? But try not to relate it to Medium or mention it’s for Medium.

But that does not mean anything directly related to Medium, views, reads, stats, boost, MPP, or any of those keywords will get dinged I guess.

Over time, I think it will get better but during these next two weeks, I can see panic and cheers at the same time.

Since they changed, I’ll have to change from Medium focus to other stuff.

For those who have been exploring new topics, it’s time to pick one and double down.

I’m wondering what about the other making money online article?

Or now that it is not under a paywall soon, will the distribution be finally open to a greater audience?

I’m sure there are more questions that everyone wants to ask.

Like what happens when you write about writing or your experience and you put the word Medium or stats or readers or writers or anything that Medium claims as meta?

Will you get warned that your stories are about to be removed as well?

For the next two weeks, I’ll be busily un-paywalling my 900+ stories and most likely deleting some or will start whenever I can since most of them no longer earn a penny anyway.

For those that want to share their stats, now is the time.

Just remember to cut it by March and shift your focus to something else.

This might sound unpleasant for some new writer who are just getting some traction with sharing their stats and experience on Medium but there are always ways to do it.

I would be interested in seeing what the traffic would be like or else it would be the same as no one can say anything about Tony or what he said since the article is not even distributed.

Time will tell and good luck on your new Medium path.

I think the earnings will be great if what Tony said is true.

Take the recent showing up as a warning of things about to change.

Thanks to

Ashok Gehlot

for reminding me about the email.

Thanks for Reading

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