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My Worst-Performing Medium Articles Got 13,000+ Views on CodePen. Here’s Why.
Medium’s algorithm doesn’t like some of my best work. CodePen disagrees.
For every technical article I write, I build a companion CodePen so readers can actually see the code in action. Somewhere along the way, without me planning it, those pens started building an audience of their own, one that Medium’s algorithm never sent them.
That audience has grown to 200 followers on CodePen alone. And the pattern is almost too consistent to be a coincidence. The articles that performed worst on Medium are, again and again, the ones whose CodePens did the best, with hundreds of likes, saved into people’s collections, and thousands of views. The writing flopped. The code didn’t.
So the question is, which were those articles that didn’t perform well?
Let’s start the list again:
But before that:
Adding to your reading list is a good thing, but to actually support the writer is to clap and comment. 90% of my readers add my stories to their lists but never clap or comment.
