Think of the maturing Medium.com as a classic capital-seeking sweatshop, using writers in this case, always looking for another angle to squeeze a little more revenue out using the latest biz plan. So Medium recently changed CEOs and every time that happens, in ANY business, the new regime feels they must perform some dog and pony show to show how they are increasing revenues. Yeah, all that happens to everyone in the biz, as in the writer-producers, which can translate into downstream collateral damage including in this case subscriber/reader value.

Yes, I too miss the older home page icons which made it so easy to find our faves. Ask Medium to explain why this happened and I guarantee all you will hear is classic corporate lard speak at how great the new changes are and yeah, that can be total BS.

As a side note, I think this is also the ever-growing business phase of everyone having some 3rd party substack account, and if not them some other e-business will be there to find SEO for any kind of contractor in the online marketplace. Do you see how this trend moves work off of Medium.com and onto the writers in this case, or really, do our market work for us so we don't have to? Seriously, our economy has always had these kinds of downstream sh#t stream games to shift work costs off the e-company and onto the worker/customer base, remember our personal data is liquid green gold to free or close-to-free online apps from FB (ahh err Meta), Google, Amazon, and on and on, freemium blah blah blah.

Again it's very much the same old same old, a piecework sweatshop model, isn't it? Dang!