Still Don’t Understand How Medium Pays

I thought it was claps and members or something based on the new layout — its not apparently

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I really don’t understand at all how I get paid by Medium. I hope it becomes more clear and transparent once the upcoming changes roll out. I thought that’s what Medium is trying to do by removing reads from stats and showing claps and comments. I thought maybe those things drove payments, but it must be something else. Or maybe that change hasn’t taken effect yet.

For some reason I thought you got paid when people clapped for stories. The changes to the partner program seems to indicate this:

AND we’re now going to start including more engagement signals as well: claps, highlights, replies, and follows.

New Partner Program incentives focus on high-quality human writing