Medium is Ruining Publications

Help us Stop it from Happening

https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/115004848868-Request-post-for-publication

Earlier this week Medium made a drastic change that directly impacts publications like ours, like HackerNoon, FreeCodeCamp, and BeYourself. These publications are based on curating content from 100s if not 1000s of writers to provide their communities with the content they are looking for on a daily basis. Their goal is to amplify the voices of everyday people to inform, teach, and support their readers.

There are three ways publications like ours do this.

1. Our current writers submit their stories to us for review.
2. Writers find us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn and ask to be added as writers.
3. We read stories we love on Medium and request them to be part of our publication.

We are always looking for new stories and new writers to join our publications to add their stories and perspectives. With this move Medium is taking away an easy and streamlined way for us to find and add writers.

Where our workflow was:

• Find an awesome story
• hit the … at the bottom of a story.
• Choose ‘request story’,
• write a note to the author explaining why we want to include their content in their in…