Medium’s Bait-and-Switch

Membership options cannot be adjusted!

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Remember when we were conned into upgrading to “Friends of Medium” for triple the cost?

We were promised that friends would receive quadruple payment for our reads.

Shortly thereafter, earnings were slashed (four times zero: do the math).

Outraged members downgraded in droves within the first week

… after which Medium quashed the option so as to stem the tide.

When you go to settings==>membership … this is what you get

Error 500: Apologies, but something went wrong on our end.

I’ve let this slide because I can easily afford the extra ten bucks per month (and pay for my own pizza).

I just got notification that my membership is up for renewal and, as a matter of principle, I want to downgrade.

I sent a message to Medium Support (knowing that they’d reply by referring me to the site link I’d forgotten the name of).

Hello,

Medium Support no longer allows submitting new support requests via…