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Top 6 Ways Medium Could Improve

Robbie Newport
4 min readMar 28, 2023

Medium wish list.

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There are more things right with Medium than wrong, yet the things that need to be fixed are really sucking the life out of the platform for many writers. If by chance these suggested improvements were made, I think Medium would become the best writing site online without question for nearly every writer.

As of now, it is the best online writing platform for some, yet not for most. Most writers lose interest when the pennies don’t add up to more than working for a survey site each day, even with a good effort at making things work.

Here are my 6 suggested improvements:

  • Earning per view from non-members with ads
  • Daily stats for each article
  • Total overall view count in stats
  • Banning articles created by AI
  • Show article view count for readers
  • Fix the following feed

Earning per view from non-members with ads

Wouldn’t it be nice to make money from views outside of Medium members? Even if it wasn’t a very high RPM, something would be better than nothing, right?

This would require some modicum of ads to be placed on the site. As long as the ads were tastefully done and not…

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Robbie Newport
Robbie Newport

Written by Robbie Newport

Writer, Social Commentary, Christian, Human Services, Veteran, Truth Seeker, Musician, Golfer https://robbienewport.substack.com/

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