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Fybsy:Tired of supplements that don’t deliver?
Tags: Amazon, Beauty, Information Technology, Health, Ｍedium

The best for your health

Fybsy:The best for your health

The Science of Advanced Delivery Technology

Tired of supplements that don’t deliver? The problem with many traditional nutritional supplements today is that only a small portion of what you’re paying for is reaching its intended target within your body. Whether it’s the quality or type of ingredients or the effectiveness of the delivery system, these supplements can leave a lot to be desired.

Fortunately, you now have options…

THE ENZYME ANSWER

Vasayo’s proprietary Advanced Delivery Technology utilizes enzymes to optimize the delivery of key nutrients within your body. Why is this important? Processing of herbs and other botanicals requires drying, which depletes precious enzymes needed for absorption and utilization in the body.

As a result, Vasayo has developed a smart enzyme delivery system designed to help replace lost enzymes and ensure that the nutrients in Vasayo’s ingredients are absorbed and utilized faster and more effectively.*

THE LIPOSOME ADVANTAGE

Our liposomes are double-layered “bubbles” or spheres that surround nutrients, helping them to pass through the harsh environment of the digestive system intact for better absorption and use by the body. The result? Premium quality products designed to maximize results and minimize waste!*
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Tags: Medium Brasil, Médium, Ｍedium, Mediumcom, Medium En Español

in The Case of Curious Birds
I share your concerns regarding Medium, Simon.
By: Shashi Sastry
Tags: Ｍedium, Writing, Boredom

I share your concerns regarding Medium, Simon.

The pittance paid based on claps and views is worse than if there was a good income based on other parameters, for it only leads to dross.

The continuous tips on how to write to earn more are the second danger to originality. It takes time to come up with something authentic and express it well. (See t.ly/kVlp)

The last risk is the recently encouraged short-form stories format. I am not sure it won’t make Medium as dysfunctional as Twitter.

Thanks for the story.
The ONLY True Way to Start Writing on Medium
By: Jacky Bossey
Tags: Passive Income, Personal Development, Writing Tips, Ｍedium, Writing

I’ve read dozens of article about “How to start writing on Medium” and it’s always the same kind of advice of: finding your passion, finding your niche, share your professional expertise, etc… And it helped… a bit. It was never the magical perfect answer that I secretly hoped I would find.

On top of that, I’m an eternal procrastinator and on top of that I over analyze everything so I don’t start until I’m 100% set on WHAT I’m going to do and HOW I’m going to do it.

Tim Urban : Why Procrastinators Procrastinate https://waitbutwhy.com/2013/10/why-procrastinators-procrastinate.html

It’s also important to mention that I’m not good at writing. Like reaaaally not good. But it’s a medium I want to try because it is way more accessible than doing YouTube video or starting a podcast.

I’ve had plenty of idea on what to write about, but I’ve always had to compete with the negative voice in my head finding reasons not to do it:

Write about what you teach and share your expertise.

Yes, but I’m not the best at that so people will not be interested. Write about your hobbies.

That sounds fun, but writing about video games on Medium doesn’t seems to be a thing. Write about your life, there is a lot of article about personal development an stuff.

That is a good idea but I’m not comfortable with putting my life out there like that.

So I did what I call “intelligent procrastination”. Reading articles and books about how to write on Medium, watching YouTube videos on blogging and other stuff. All of this justified by “let’s learn more and then I’ll be ready to start”.

So I did that for many many months until I just forgot that I wanted to try writing on Medium. Until one day, I stumbled upon one of the best advice EVER for any person looking to create any form of content online.
Blow Up Your Medium Stats
By: Terry Mansfield
Tags: Statistics, How To, Humor, Poetry, Ｍedium

Learn more. Medium is an open platform where 170 million readers come to find insightful and dynamic thinking. Here, expert and undiscovered voices alike dive into the heart of any topic and bring new ideas to the surface. Learn more

Make Medium yours. Follow the writers, publications, and topics that matter to you, and you’ll see them on your homepage and in your inbox. Explore
寫作平台文章閱讀介面比較
Tags: Matters, Timelog, Vocus, Wreadit, Ｍedium

in About Me Stories
Using Medium To Boost Your Writing Productivity
By: Ryan Justin
Tags: Writing Tips, Productivity, Ｍedium, Creativity, Writing

What Brought Me Back

Ok, so you may be reading this and thinking;

“If you’re struggling so much to get going with your writing again, how the hell is signing up to Medium going to help? Now you’re just going to be unproductive on two platforms instead of one.”

Well, let me explain.

One of the first things that attracted me to Medium, way back in 2018 when I first signed up, was the freedom of the platform.

You can write about anything you want. There are no rules — well, very little.

Here you can let your imagination run wild.

You can experiment with different genres, play around with various formatting techniques, try your hand at all aspects of writing without fear of judgement or failure.

Medium is a playground for you to challenge your writing prowess.

And that’s what has brought me back.

After taking some time to analyse my current situation and come up with a solution, I discovered the main cause for my lack in writing productivity was due to aiming to hard for ‘perfection’.

Perhaps you’ve suffered something similar?

As I was creating my blog — Bloodyknuckle.org — I had in my mind a vision; this was going to be a place for me to showcase only my best work. Each piece was to be well thought out, precisely put together and only then, when it was ‘perfect’, would I hit the publish button.

A terrible promise to make oneself.

I’d spend hours writing and re-writing the same paragraphs over and over again trying to get things just right.

Creating one article was taking days to complete because achieving satisfaction with my work was a seemingly impossible task. I’d always find something to scrutinize over and waste time fixing.

Where had this minor form of OCD appeared from? I do not know.

In the past I’d be able to create one article per day, sometimes even two. Sure, they weren’t perfect, far from it, but at least I was having fun during the crafting stages.

But now that I’d turned so serious all of a sudden, my motivation and drive to write were shrinking and it was looking like it would never return.

That’s when I knew it was time to revert back to old ways by relaunching my Medium membership and my love for the writing process.
My Medium Predictions for 2021
By: Roz Warren
Tags: Writing On Medium, Humor, Funny, Ｍedium, Roz Warren

FUNNY

My Medium Predictions for 2021

It Could Happen

Photo by Sincerely Media on Unsplash

In 2021:

Anyone who posts about how much money they are making on Medium will have all of the money siphoned out of their bank account.

Anyone who posts advice about how you can make more money on Medium will have all of the money siphoned out of their bank account and transferred to your bank account.

Farts, Eyerolls and Gasps will be added to Claps as a metric. If you don’t like a post you will be able to give it up to 50 Farts, Gasps and/or Eyerolls. (This will have no impact on how much the writer gets paid but giving a post you really hate 50 farts will be fun.)

Medium will stop notifying you whenever someone you follow has highlighted something you have highlighted. Instead you’ll be notified whenever they have an orgasm while reading Medium erotica.

If you clap for a Medium post without actually reading it, a hand will come out of your screen and slap you.

If you post something that is racist, sexist, fat-shaming, homophobic or misogynistic, the little clap hand will give you the finger.

If you post a lie on Medium, the nose on your Medium Profile Portrait will grow.

Each day a random Medium creator will be elevated to the position of Curator for a Day and will be given the power to curate anything they want. (This won’t be a paying job, but curating all of your Medium pals will be fun.)

Glitter Highlighting will be introduced. If you like something, highlight it. If it makes you want to dance? Glitter highlight it.

Green with Envy Highlighting will be introduced for highlighting sentences you wish you’d written.

A special Sarcasm Font will be introduced for posting responses, so readers will know you’re being snarky instead of sincere.

Medium will change the algorithm so that nobody gets paid but poets.

There will be a new Turds for Trolls policy. The Algorithm knows where you live, troll. It will dispatch a Special Squad of Feces-Flinging Medium Monkeys to visit you and Curate your Manners.

The stock photographs available to accompany Medium posts will be limited to photos of squirrels, chickens and wombats. Except for #ferretFriday, when they will be limited to photos of ferrets.

And finally?

Ev Williams will admit that the algorithm is actually a dude named Al Gorithm and that Curators are actually corgis, as I disclosed in this humor piece:

BEST WISHES FOR A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS 2021 TO ALL MY MEDIUM PALS.

( Writing Coach and Medium Sherpa Roz Warren writes for everyone from the Funny Times to the New York Times, has been in 13 Chicken Soup for the Soul collections, and is the author of Our Bodies, Our Shelves: Library Humor. Drop her a line at roSwarren@gmail.com.)
Farts, Gasps and/or Eyerolls might be the only thing I ever get.
By: Lon Shapiro
Tags: Writing On Medium, Humor, Funny, Ｍedium, Roz Warren

Farts, Eyerolls and Gasps will be added to Claps as a metric. If you don’t like a post you will be able to give it up to 50 Farts, Gasps and/or Eyerolls. (This will have no impact on how much the writer gets paid but giving a post you really hate 50 fart…
An overview of digital marketing technologies | Earn more
Tags: Digitalpercom, Digital Marketing, Marketing Technology, Online Earning, Ｍedium

An overview of digital marketing technologies | Earn more Haseebalee ·Dec 20, 2020

If you are working in digital marketing these days, you may be bombarded with all sorts of technologies on a daily basis that can help you do something in one form or another.

You will see countless demos of countless companies.

(An overview of digital marketing technologies | Earn more) You’ve known for decades the brand of new startups that are diving into the next big thing, and if you’re confused and overwhelmed, don’t worry, you’re not alone. We are going to break Using the Digital Marketing Technology Stack Framework that we’ve used over the years at our firm Cardinal Path, focus well on the four major components of tools and technology and configure each one accordingly. They can help you and we won’t be able to.

read more click on the link https://www.digitalper.com/2020/12/An-overview-of-digital-marketing-technologies.html
An Open Letter to Pain — from Us.
By: Andrew Lejon
Tags: 2020, Anxiety, Mental Health, Ｍedium, PTSD

Dear Pain,

This year you showed your wild side. You dropped your trousers, showed your a**, kicked butt, and took names. You’ve seemingly wrapped 2020 in a fancy package glittered with loss, tragedy, and unpredictability. You started the year as you always do, sprinkling a glimmer of hope after the 2019 Christmas holiday season. But then you tried your best to wreak havoc.

The world thinks you started your tornado of fury with Covid-19. We all know that’s not true. Social anxiety, depression, financial issues, and everything else — you’ve tried it all before. From the loss of loved ones to the time we were traumatized by your presence, you certainly know how to leave a lasting impression. Kudos to you. You’ve certainly never been a quitter.

It’s true: We can’t ignore your presence. Sometimes our thoughts are screaming in agony even though we never make a sound. Other times, our poor decisions and questionable judgment reflects everything you represent.

We see your sinister plans lurking in the shadows. We’re not sure what you’re after, but we know you’re relentless. For that reason, we want you to know that we’re waving the white flag of life in the pits of your existence. We’re surrendering the idea that pain isn’t normal, but we won’t succumb to your temptations.

Yes, you deserve a lot of credit.

From the craziness of America’s presidential election to the loss of some of the greatest people to ever walk this planet, you partnered with uncertainty and made us wonder if we’d ever see 2021.

Even with all your attempts to slow us down, it was an unfair fight. We had an advantage that you could never rattle. We were born in the depths of disparity and have cried when you had nothing else to toss at us. The hottest fire makes the hardest steel, and we’ve been custom molded to persevere.

We persevered. We carried on. We did not quit.

2020 has certainly left a lasting impression. Thankfully, the Christmas season has us standing in our corners not knowing what to expect when the 2021 bell rings. As the beautiful ring girl walks around the ring holding her sign high in the air, we’re preparing for 2021 with what we know:

We will come out swinging.

We will weather the storms.

And we will persevere.

Sincerely, Us.
Life hacks: knowledge isn’t free, you have to pay attention.
By: Alesssandra Vonica
Tags: Emotions, Life, Thoughts, Ｍedium, Love

“The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself he becomes wise.” — Alden Nowlan
Simple Guide To The Medium Algorithm
By: Dagmara Sajdak
Tags: Money, Partner Program, Earn Money Online, Ｍedium, Writing

You’re on Medium, and you want to make money.

There is nothing wrong with that. You’re putting in the time, so you expect some compensation.

But when you look at your articles, you notice that some of them might have more views or reads but actually made you less money than their less popular counterparts.

I have noticed that a very popular theory claims that your earnings depend on claps or fans your stories have. But that’s also incorrect.

So how does the Medium algorithm actually work?

Photo by Glenn Carstens-Peters on Unsplash

According to the most official source you could possibly find — Medium, “Partner Program writers are paid monthly based on how much time Medium members spend reading their stories.”

But what does that mean?

In summary, it means that at the moment you can’t calculate or predict any exact numbers when it comes to your earning.

However, you can still use the algorithm to your advantage.

With how the Partner Program works right now, your most important statistic will be member reading time.

An important question we need to answer is whether non-Medium readers also count towards your member reading time. The answer is yes, but only if they become members within 30 days of reading your story.

This is why sometimes you will receive earnings seemingly out of nowhere — that comes from the fact that readers subscribed to the Medium Partner Program a while after reading your story.
Beautify Your GitHub Account by Adding Your Latest Medium Posts to GitHub Profile Readme
By: Farhan Yuda Pahlevi
Tags: Nodejs, Github Profile, Github, Open Source, Ｍedium

Back in July 2020, GitHub releases a new feature that allows you to create a custom profile (ex: Add medium article to GitHub Profile Readme), today people just call it ‘profile readme’. For creating a custom profile you need to create a repository with the same name as your GitHub account and create a readme file, for further information you can go to GitHub docs here. Below is an example, I use my profile:

This is my GitHub Profile after customizing the readme file and adding Medium article

Let’s start!

The first time I’m trying to customize my GitHub profile is when I visit this curated repository, after that, I just try to put a widget on my GitHub profile. One day, I want to put my medium articles on my GitHub profile but when I check on that repository I couldn’t find a suitable ‘widget’ for my use case. So what I’m doing actually just modifying an available ‘widget’ to fit into my use case. Finally, I publish it on my GitHub and put the ‘widget’ on my Profile, you can just visit the repository for more details, here’s the repository :

In this article, I want to share how to use it, if you interest in that ‘widget’ you can use it too. The first thing you need is just put your medium username on below request, below is the minimum requirement for the request :

https://github-read-medium-git-main.pahlevikun.vercel.app/latest?username=`your_medium_username`

You can use up to 2 extra queries to customize the request below :

limit = default is 1, the maximum value is the number of your medium post

theme = use a custom theme for article card

After that you can just use it on your GitHub profile or anywhere you want since basically it just calling a service that generates an image based on your medium article, so it can be used on Markdown or Html. For a live demo, you can just go to my GitHub account.

Please Deploy By Your Self ◡̈

I use vercel as static hosting for my serverless app, vercel require GitHub API token and GitHub API token has a rate limit, the limitation is my token can only be accessed for 5000 requests/hour. If the request more than 5000 requests/hour, the widget will not work. Please deploy by yourself using your GitHub API token on vercel to avoid that issue, it is very easy, you only need to import my repository by clicking here and put your GitHub API token when importing the repository.
Journey to start a blog
By: Aman Agarwal
Tags: Journey, Blog, First Post, Ｍedium, Web Development

The first blog on the journey of how I came to Medium

Journey to start a blog

Hurdles faced when I was about to start blogging. A short blog on how I came to Medium and Why liked it. Aman Agarwal Dec 19, 2020·2 min read

After graduating and working in a software firm, I always wanted to set up blogs. I found out that blogging is one of the few methods through which you can express what you have learned in life. The knowledge is not restricted technical domain but expands over to the hard-learned reality of life and the course of exploring the vast number of options one is asked to choose from. No option is right or wrong, it just directs our life to a new path.

To establish a blog from the very beginning, I started to build a website. I was technically sound enough to build a developer portfolio and host it with a custom domain. But the real challenge lies ahead, how to make the blog work?

Extending the portfolio to a blog was a great task. I started by looking for the architecture of blogs that could be scaled up and require less maintenance. But managing various tasks like writing blogs, creating a blog editor for uploading blogs, storing blog in a database, using a hosted database, securing the backend of the blog, and optimizing the blog for search engines was a tough task to be done individually.

So I moved to a second option Using website builder and third-party CMS. CMS stands for the content management system. Tools like WordPress, Wix, etc provide you solutions to host your blogs at a minimal price. The major drawback I suffered was these tools were developed in languages I was not knowing. So to adapt to these tools, either I have to learn a new language and scrap my previous work or somehow make my existing work compatible with tools. Even learning these tools was difficult for me.

So I started exploring the options to use a blogging platform and I stumbled upon Medium. Medium provided me enough space to express my experience and save me the hassle of setting up a custom blog.

I chose Medium mainly due to

Clean and minimal design

Great SEO features

Great audience

APIs are available for third-party integration.

I will mainly blog about learning in the technology world, which will include tricks and hacks related to Web Development, surviving in the Software industry, and dilemma software engineers face after their graduation.

Stay tuned for more amazing stories and insights into the tech industry.
I have had the same issue, even not showing new stories, no stories at all. It is so frustrating.
By: Agnes Laurens
Tags: Art, Ｍedium, Creativity, Writing, Reading

I have had the same issue, even not showing new stories, no stories at all. It is so frustrating.

Medium Staff, please fix this issue. Medium
Does anyone have anything important to say or is it all writing advice?
By: Mike Marolla
Tags: Short Read, Ｍedium, Writing, Questions

Does anyone have anything important to say or is it all writing advice? Maybe I need to alter who I follow, but I see A LOT of articles about “how I made my first [insert $$ amount]” and “_______ ways to become a better writer”. I’m not hating on them, but I wonder about the motivation.

Have you run out of ideas?

Do you just understand this type of article does well on Medium?

Are you really trying to help people?

Are you just trying to brag?

All of the above?

They all end up saying the same things basically. Maybe I am being a hater.

Maybe I should just stop clicking on them. I guess I feel like I am going to see something new — something that resonates.

What works for one person doesn’t always work for everyone — or maybe it does.
Why You Should Take the Medium Reader Behavior Survey
By: Quy Ma
Tags: Marketing, Surveys, Writer, Ｍedium, Reading

What drives the stats?

Like many other Medium writers, I obsess over my stats. I refresh more times than I’d like to admit. I love seeing the numbers, views, and member read time update in real-time. I just can’t help it — it’s fun and addicting!

But have you ever wondered what a Medium reader’s journey to your article looks like? Where do they come from? You can imagine me asking that question in my best Neil deGrasse Tyson voice.

Let’s say you have an article that is performing well. What caused it to do well? Some writers could attribute the success of that story to a catchy headline. Or the content is really that good. Or maybe the writer just has a really big, loyal following.

While I do consider those factors to be important to a story’s performance, I actually can’t help but think about how that reader came upon the article in the first place. I think about it all the time. And it bugs me how I don’t know the answer.
How much I make on Medium with only 100 views, if that, per articles.
By: Erin Skidds
Tags: Money, Articles, Ｍedium, Make Money Online, Writing

Photo by Ali Shah Lakhani on Unsplash

Writing articles has been a hobby of mine for years. I have been writing articles on my own domains for years. That’s how I started my web development career. My first website was a blog. It was called Forever Angel. Interesting name but it didn’t get very many views. Even though my articles have never (so far) gotten more than 100 views, I still want to talk about how much I make via Medium.

This is going to be a short article since I don’t make much money. I can sum it up to this, I make about $1–3 per month. My highest month was closer to $4 for one of my articles but that is the most I have made.

I can write these articles within 30 minutes to an hour so it isn’t surprising that my articles don’t make much money. I am still learning on what readers like to see on Medium versus my traditional blogs and it is a process but if you are going to start on Medium, I highly recommend it because while I “only” make $1–3 per month, that is still $1–3 per month with some articles making that after they sit there for months. I have one article, I wrote 4 months ago that still makes about $3 per month. So, it is 30–60 minutes of work for a $15 (so far) pay-off. That isn’t bad at all. I’m putting my skills to work and it feels fantastic.

Just think about it this way, you put in an hour of two of work and then you can possibly get paid for that, why not?

I have some articles that haven’t made any money since they were posted and that’s okay. They just aren’t what people like to read on the website. They are good practice for my articles that will make money. After all, practice makes perfect. Perfect is unreachable so we can all use practice.

If you would like some tips, please let me know! I’d be happy to give out some tips!

Thanks for reading Writers Guild — A Penname publication

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Quy Ma is conducting his own Medium reader survey.
By: Aimée Gramblin
Tags: Research, Surveys, Ｍedium, Reading, Short Form

Quy Ma is conducting his own Medium reader survey. With enough data (300 respondents), he'll share his findings publicly. I just filled it out. It took me about five minutes. You don’t have to provide your email address, although I choose to, because Quy is cool and may have interesting information to share in the future.

Wondering about Quy’s credibility? He’s a professional in the consumer and market research sector, so he knows his stuff.

“Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.” — Zora Neale Hurston
getting over him: a series
Tags: Ｍedium, Series, Poetry, Finding Yourself

you left me in pieces, i thought only you could fill the void.

i only see now that a man would never see mistreatment as an option,

only a boy.
If you use Gmail, you may not have received Medium notifications this week.
By: Caroline De Braganza
Tags: Technology, Advice, Gmail, Ｍedium, This Happened To Me

If you use Gmail, you may not have received Medium notifications this week. Please contact Medium support who will sort it for you.

My first action when I picked up this problem was to check my email settings in Medium, but the switch was on. Then I worried my laptop was the cause — I’ve had one crash on me before. I’m sure you can relate to our human tendency to imagine the worst!

When Lucy The Eggcademic (she/her) said she had the same problem, I heaved a sigh of relief and sent a query to Medium support.

I’m happy to report they fixed my problem in under an hour!

Three days’ worth of email poured in, enabling me to catch responses I’d missed on Medium’s bell.

They reckon it may be because of the massive Gmail outage on 14 December.

Screenshot by Author

I suggest you contact Medium Support if you have the same problem.
Every day, people on Medium came together to make sense of this unusual
By: Asimo Dak C
Tags: 2020, Year In Review, History, Life, Ｍedium

What just happened?

It’s hard to say for sure. There are the obvious things. The ways our world, and our lives, changed — probably forever. Hundreds of moments watching our colleagues freeze up on video chat. Then, awkwardly trying to tell them, “You’re frozen.” That’s just the beginning.

People have always turned to Medium to better understand the world and each other, and this year was the ultimate testament to that. We came here to figure out exactly… what’s going on. To connect with writers who informed, enlightened, challenged, and moved us. To tell our stories. To feel less alone. Every day, people on Medium came together to make sense of this unusual time, and to learn from each other in the process.

To mark the end of a year that sometimes felt like one endless day (we’re actually writing this on Tuesday, March 263rd), we wanted to share a small portion of the Medium stories that helped us all process this moment in history. We hope you appreciate revisiting them as much as we did.
Moving On from Medium
By: Alex Bemish
Tags: Ｍedium, Moving On, Blog

I just looked at Medium for the first time in a couple years and, yeah, I’m no longer feeling it anymore.

If you’re interested in following my writing in the future (it appears I now have 46 followers!), I just revived my old WordPress blog and renamed it Charioteer for any and all future posts. Even though 2020 was a complete mess, here’s to hoping 2021 shows some kind of improvement…

While I won’t be updating this site anymore, I’m planning to keep it available as a record of my old writings. Aside from that, I hope to see many of you over at WordPress and that everyone has a happy holidays and a less-stressful New Year.
What Is This Ichi.Pro and Why do They Have Medium Pubs On Their Site?
By: Charles H. Roast
Tags: Technology, Privacy, Ｍedium, Plagiarism, Web Development

What Is This Ichi.Pro and Why do They Have Medium Pubs On Their Site?

Photo by Bermix Studio on Unsplash

Okay, I don’t want to start something I have very little expertise in, but I think these guys once stole a few Pubs from Medium and got shut down. I went to their site to see if any of mine were stolen and grabbed a screen shot/snippet of the below.

If you didn’t give permission for them to have your pub, you might want to report them to both Medium and Ichi’s host.
Interesting read.
By: Chira Lois
Tags: Food, Writing Tips, Cooking, Ｍedium, Tag

Interesting read. I’m a hobby food writer, and I’ve tried writing food articles on Medium, but people are unrepentantly disinterested. Interest in food writing here is so dismal, it even feels embarrassing to bother. So I just stopped and deleted my articles. Now, write an article filling readers heads about making a million dollars in a week from freelance writing, and voila! Curation, publication in the leading pubs, and instant success.
3 Simple Ways to Increase Your Medium Earnings
Tags: Medium Earnings, Passive Income, Writing Tips, Blogging Tips, Ｍedium

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock for the past month, you’re probably aware of the sudden shift in Medium’s algorithm. Top writers like Shannon Ashley and Shaunta Grimes have reported a steep decline in their earnings, and they aren’t the only ones.

It seems that the old curation system has been done away with. Those writers whose stories were chosen for distribution were frequently at the top of the reading list. Articles that were published months, even years ago on the Medium platform could still easily find their way out to new readers.

Now, it seems that the website is taking an “out with the old, in with the new” approach by prioritizing stories based on what readers are interested in seeing.

Truthfully, it’s not the end of the world. Earnings reports might be a little wonky for the next few months while certain elements settle into place, but it doesn’t necessarily mean that you should give up or move away from the platform altogether.
Why I Am Returning To Medium.
By: Jamie Styles
Tags: Returning, Culture, Blogging, Writer, Ｍedium

Why I Am Returning To Medium.

Photo by Samsung Memory on Unsplash

When I left Medium, I naively believed I would have plenty of time to write; however, Covid-19 taught me otherwise. This is a short article explaining why I am returning to Medium, not entirely but somewhat.

I believe I can attract more followers on here, more readers who keep coming back. Nevertheless, exclusive content will be available only on my website, plus my best work for readers who do not have a premium Medium account. I hope to now specifically focus on culture writing, with maybe a few self-help articles as well. Please comment on any suggestions on what films, books or any self-help topics, you want me to discuss.

Currently, the website has a few new articles to check out! So please do check them out, using the link below. I further, have a new article on Hemingway coming out probably tomorrow, so please do give it a read.

www. b-less.me
Firebase Emulator Suite
By: Pium Sudhara
Tags: Firebase Emulator Suite, Ｍedium, Firebase

Advanced tools for developers build and test apps locally

Image from firebase.google.com

What is Firebase Emulator Suite?🤔

Before on year ago at Firebase Summit 2019, Google has been introduced new feature into the Firebase. They introduced Firebase Emulator Suite. An advanced tools for developers build and test apps locally using Cloud Firestore, Realtime Database, Authentication, Cloud Functions, Cloud Pub/Sub and Firebase Hosting. Local development with Local Emulator Suite can be a good fit for your prototyping, development and continuous integration workflows.

Image from firebase.google.com

So basically with Firebase Emulator Suite have tools to run your web or mobile app in locally. This might help you to testing or debugging your app.

So which Firebase features and platforms are supported?🤔

According to the Firebase documentation Firebase Local Emulator Suite allows you to test your code with our core products in an interoperable way. The Cloud Functions emulator supports HTTP functions, callable functions, and background functions triggered by Cloud Firestore, Realtime Database and Cloud Pub/Sub; the Cloud Functions emulator does not support background functions triggered by Auth or Cloud Storage for Firebase. For Cloud Firestore and Realtime Database emulators, Security Rules emulation is built in.

Image from firebase.google.com

Setup Firebase Emulator Suite

To better understand this let’s connect emulator suite with our web application.

To setup emulator suite first of all we need to install Firebase CLI. Following command will install Firebase CLI.

npm install -g firebase-tools

Once your installation is completed you must log into your Firebase CLI

firebase login

After authentication create your web application and in that project folder run the following command.

firebase init

‘firebase init’ command will initialize Firebase on your project folder. I already added Firestore, Function, Hosting and Emulators to the project folder.

After adding necessary tools to the project, we can start our Firebase Emulator. To do that run the following command.

firebase emulators:start

Done! Now our Firebase emulator is running. To view the Firebase Emulator and status run http://localhost:4000 on your browser.
No Payouts from Medium to India and Brazil users.
By: Sourabh Kalal
Tags: Medium Partner Program, Brazil, Stripe, India, Ｍedium

Hey Everybody,

If you want to earn using medium then you need to join “medium partner program” and create a stripe account which is the only parter program with medium.

You will be earning as per the reader’s time spent on your blog. and you will get the payout at 8th of every month. (It might take 3–5 days to reflect your payment)

Currently Stripe is in review period for India and Brazil. and when you try to join medium partner program and connect stripe account, that time you will be getting the error “We’re sorry but the Medium Partner Program is unavailable in your location.”
So this changes everything. Clarifies some things about shortform, too.
By: The Dozen
Tags: Read More, Ｍedium, Change Management, Short Form

So this changes everything. Clarifies some things about shortform, too.

You won’t get anything from writing shortform, even with a million claps, if people don’t click on your story to “read more.”

You’re paid based on reading time. And if you clap based on what you read from the preview = zero $.

They’re resolving this issue so that only free posts will show in full.

And metered posts will have a preview.
Please Don’t Ruin Medium
By: Simon Hamelin
Tags: Ｍedium, Writing, Blogging Tips

GROWING OUR AUDIENCE

Articles about how to make money on Medium are aplenty.

Every writer who has achieved success on the platform writes one, it is a sort of rite of passage, creating a constant stream of quality updates on what works and what doesn’t to make the dream we all seek become a reality.

Tips and tricks on how to hack the growth of our audiences are the most common appearance in this wave of literature, and some people are proving quite resourceful in the matter.

This is what most of them are missing.

Super-Fans vs. Meh-Fans

If you’ve ever tried to grow an audience on any social media platform before, you know that engaging with other accounts results in a small percentage of engagement on yours in return.

This has caused the appearance of bots on other platforms that have proved to be quite a nuisance.

Bots crawl brand or celebrity pages, hashtag directories, they like photos and comment automatically, follow people to unfollow them a few days later (have to keep that follower/following ratio to an appropriate level, duh).

But let me ask you this question:

if you wanted to create a relationship with someone, would you just go up to them, tap them on the shoulder, and just hope they engage back?

I am going to assume you answered no.

Meaningful relationships come from meaningful exchanges.

And if you don’t know how important meaningful relationships are in building an audience, I recommend you read up on what Seth Godin has to say about building a tribe.

It is a lot more valuable to have 1 superfan than 100 meh-fans.

Superfans read all you have to say and gladly respond. They find ways to show you support and even share your content with their own audiences.

1 meh-fan results in one view on your content, 1 superfan can result in 1000 potential views.

You’re not fooling me

We all have a radar to detect ulterior motives in other people’s behaviors, it is true in real life and it is true online.

You go on Instagram and see a comment that reads “What a wonderful picture” under a video, some influencer likes 3 random photos in your feed, etc. We’ve all experienced it.

A comment left on an article of mine a few days ago

Key Takeaway #1

Our goal is to build an audience of people who will read our content, give us feedback, and keep engaging with us month after month.

It is to establish relationships that will last and hopefully help us create a stream of income.

Randomly following writers, giving them 50 claps, highlighting a random sentence in their article, and adding a comment just relevant enough that it might pass as genuine will not move you toward this goal.

Instead of spending 20 minutes following 10 people and engaging with their content at random, spend them following 1 and truly engaging with whatever they have to share. Genuinely express how what they have written has touched you and I guarantee they will remember you and possibly return the favor.
Help me answer this question. Was I plagiarised, or is it a case of Cryptomnesia? It can happen to all of us, something borrowed from our memory…
By: Xin Xin
Tags: Social Media, Cryptomnesia, Ｍedium, Writing, Short Form

Help me answer this question. Was I plagiarised, or is it a case of Cryptomnesia?

Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash

What is Cryptomnesia?

It can happen to all of us, something borrowed from our memory.
Highlighting is one of the most exclusive and powerful features of Medium. Unleash its power to boost your presence in the community by: But please don’t highlight randomly or your own stories. This…
By: Vico Biscotti
Tags: Advice, Tagging, Blogging, Ｍedium, Reading

Highlighting is one of the most exclusive and powerful features of Medium. Unleash its power to boost your presence in the community by:

Connecting with the author, showing him or her specific appreciation. They’ll likely receive notifications about it.

Connecting with readers who will read. They’ll see your highlights and likely relate.

Connecting with readers who already read. They’ll likely receive notifications about your similar highlights.

But please don’t highlight randomly or your own stories. This is about connecting, not spamming.

And, since the best part of Medium is the community, if we can connect more, why not?

See Tactic Highlighting on Medium (friend link)
How Long Should Your Story Be to Get Curated?
By: Bartosz Konikiewicz
Tags: Statistics, Python, Meta, Programming, Ｍedium

A Little Analysis

Assuming from Medium curation guidelines, stories are mostly curated by hand. So, does it mean that the staff only reads shorter stories? Not necessarily. Do people read such stories the most? Presumably — yes. I just have not enough data. Technically I could use a number of claps to measure a story popularity, unfortunately I’m not a member and I can’t see them through Medium paywall.

The most popular stories are around 5 minutes long. Does it mean that you should aim for that? Not at all. I believe that these stories are just the most dominant. When your thoughts flow, you don’t count the words. From my limited experience, 5 minutes may be enough to grasp a subject. But not always!

Programming has loads of tutorials which are a little longer than that. It doesn’t mean that they are less valuable — quite the opposite. I believe that this kind of stories is future-proof. An author can profit from them in the long run. It really depends on your popularity on Medium, your publication or lack thereof, and many other factors.

What really matters is that even if your story is 46 minutes long, it still may get curated. They are not abundant — yes, but you don’t stumble on such topic every other day. Just write. But remember that ultimately there’s a reason why 4 minute reads are so plentiful. I can’t tell you what it is, but it’s possible that it’s the perfect length that keeps your readers focused.
Dear Favorite Medium Writers
By: Amy Culberg
Tags: Self Improvement, Writing Tips, Ｍedium, Writing, Self-awareness

I’d like to know how anyone knows if they’re being honest with themselves. Where’s the evidence room? Where’s the at-home lie detector test? Where do I attach these electrodes that tell me whether I’m being real or whether I’m just playing for an audience?

I have been hiding my flaws so long that I can’t even remember where I hid them. Even when I think I’m being authentic, I tip my head and ask, “Really?”

I’ve been marketing my narrative so long that I wouldn’t know the truth if it smacked me in the face with a sock filled with rocks.

I’m not kidding. Teach me what you know about the truth. I’ve been circumventing what I really think for so damn long, I wouldn’t be able to answer questions about myself on a quiz show.

In truth or dare, I pick dare.

I couldn’t pick my truth in a lineup. That’s the thing about being accommodating to other people’s truths for too long. You get all muddy brained when you should be clear as day. You got the story you thought people wanted to hear down to a tee, but you can’t remember the real one. There are some similarities, like landmarks, but the details are fuzzy.

Seriously, Medium writers, teach me how to be honest. I’m not trying to be clever. I’m like an archeologist who’s found myself in a place where something very cool is buried, but it could be anywhere. Just point me in the right direction. You don’t have to dig with me. I know you got your own excavation.

So Medium writers, as I walk this path, I ask, how do you find the truth? How do you sift through the flotsam? How do you find out if you have anything worth saying? Anything worth teaching? Any story worth telling?

Maybe you don’t know either. Is that so? Maybe we can help one another. Like the famous saying goes, “The journey is the destination.” Maybe none of us know our truth until we fall through the earth and land on it. On the other hand, if you have a map, I’d be greatly obliged to you.
If Medium is relational now, why is it so hard to find writers to build relationships with?
By: Addie Page
Tags: Ｍedium, Writing, Relationships, Editing

Photo by Naassom Azevedo on Unsplash

If Medium is relational now, why is it so hard to find writers to build relationships with?

The platform is great for two kinds of writers:

brand new writers learning the craft, and who benefit a lot from a communities like Illumination and its clones

full-time writers who already have 10k+ followers, a Substack newsletter, a consulting business, some Kindle books, and a “brand”

Where are my fellow long-time hobbyists? The Joan Didion fans? The folks who spend time deciding whether to use “cut” or “slice” in a sentence, but who also rock a day job and don’t really need to monetize this thing? People who are in this to make friends and comment on each other’s life stories? The algorithm isn’t helping me find you, so hit me up in the comments if this is you—let’s make Medium relational.
Even more true with the recent changes.
By: Vico Biscotti
Tags: Writing Tips, Blogging, Ｍedium, Writing, Short Form

Even more true with the recent changes.

However, it’s worth it to keep experimenting. Short-form is an opportunity for quick sharing and showing, and for resurrecting a few buried stories.
Silver
Tags: Poetry On Medium, Christmas, Ｍedium

Afterthoughts

This poem is from the perspective of a girl who loves a boy who’s personified by the mirror. When he’s before her, it’s like a reflection of herself, and he’s beautiful to her in every sense. Over time they’ve made several connections that are like silver wires, and when she began to trace them out, the time has come, and they’re slowly fading away. The journey with him had been wonderful and had always brought a smile on her face and sometimes made her shy. She always gets so lost in him, and time feels like an eternity.

So she decided to confess to him even though they’d never meet again, but she’d still like him to know that she loved him. The boy smiles and tells her they can be friends, and the virtual rose fallen is compared to amber on the floor. Strokes of colors have depicted the boy’s love, they’d always bring a smile to her face, and today it brought tears.

Frozen as in fractals is her heart, but she still loves him forever, and the love always aspires. Maybe someday she’ll meet him.
Back to Medium Alpha after trying Beta
By: Gagan Saxena
Tags: Ｍedium, User Experience

Back to Medium Alpha after trying Beta

The @Medium team is working on a new user experience and I had the privilege of taking this beta version round the block for a spin. I could not stay with that version for more than a couple of days and switched back to Alpha — suddenly appreciating this version much more than I had earlier. I am on this (alpha) Medium much more now, secretly thankful for what we have here.

I hope Medium will keep experimenting with the new vision until it is an improvement for most of the users. Here are some of my impressions.

The three show-stoppers that forced me to abandon beta

Missing ‘see all’ buttons at the end of each list. The beta version seems walled-in with curated content presented in boxes and no obvious way to leave the box and explore with ‘see all’. Extremely prominent (obnoxiously so) lists of curated authors taking up more than half of the main page. There is no curated list of Publications, Interest Areas or Tags to guide casual discovery. Missing claps-list. One important way to engage with authors is by clapping for them, and the list of all things you have clapped for is a good reference for later engagement and writing.

And then there is the ominous erosion of white space

The new Medium (beta candidate for now) has everything crowded together. The calming white space that makes the unique and attractive Medium experience has been reduced in small and large ways. This may just be a matter of getting used to the new layout, but it is a major change to the current Medium experience. I enjoy Medium because it does not look like one of the tabloids online with each square millimeter taken up with something clickable.

Here is hoping for the best and also best wishes to the @MediumStaff team working hard for us!

Que sera, sera….

(Image: Jim Wilson on Unsplash)
Mary’s Writing Wisdom and Medium Mastery Moments
By: Mary Devries
Tags: Tips, Advice, Productivity, Ｍedium, Writing

Humble advice from someone just a few steps ahead of you on how to grow as a writer on Medium.

Photo by David Travis on Unsplash

There is so much excellent advice on how to succeed as a writer and specifically how to do it on Medium. What do I have to add? I’m someone who has been writing on this platform just long enough to have figured some things out but also came here recently enough that I remember what it was like to be new, confused, and overwhelmed. Join me on the journey.