What Medium Is Really Doing

No, they’re not stealing indie writers views. They’re doing what any online publication does.

Just last week the earnings that we typically receive on Wednesday had a bit of a glitch. Many of us rushed to the earning page to see how our hustle has paid for this week and we were greeted with…

Nothing.

Nothing at all.

Now for me, I didn’t panic. Whenever something out of the ordinary happens on Medium I’ve chalked it up to some kind of glitch.

When I couldn’t post anything at all several months ago, it was a glitch in the system.

When I didn’t see my results on Wednesday at the usual time, it was a glitch in the system.

But it’s surprising how these things can be looked at from a different angle. For many, they used this delay in payment as a sign that “Medium is going to crash and burn.”

Yes, a website that is bringing in literally millions of reading time every single month is crumbling before us because of a single technical error. *says sarcastically*

Or maybe you think the system is crashing and burning because you’re not getting what you want from the system and have decided to complain about it. Either way, I really don’t know…