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EXCLUSIVE: Fly on the Wall from Internal Medium Meeting Tells All
The conspiracy runs deeper than we could ever have imagined, folks!
A transcript of the big Medium meeting was sent to me last week, but despite my linguistic abilities, I struggle with Fly — especially the Californian accent. Reaching into my worn shoulder bag, I playfully call “Rosetta,” I pulled out the lone page of older Sumerian text I use for such occasions. The translation process began.
I discovered language patterns in Fly that brought to mind Basque and a little-known language called Romansh, spoken by around 30,000 people in the Swiss canton of Grisons. Hacking away, I made some interesting discoveries.
The number of reads is less relevant than ever before
The great minds in the Medium back office have decided that the platform should not be about reading. Maybe some of the current employees had bad experiences at the reading trucks that used to tour our great land promoting the act of reading. Remember them? The Reading is Fundamental (RIF) vans? Maybe this is why they are so down on rewarding hard-working authors.
Whatever the case, Medium does not need anyone wasting their time reading, especially if the folks reading your stuff are members…
