The changes on Medium have become increasingly noticeable, especially over the past year. I’ve been on Medium for about six years, and at the beginning of 2025, I decided to take a break because my mental health was a mess with so much work, and at the time, writing on the platform didn’t make as much sense to me.

In the meantime, I decided to return to Medium this month and I’ve discovered that the platform is almost unrecognizable! The Medium I knew has disappeared!

The New Reality

When I came back, I immediately noticed several changes:

• We can now only publish one or two stories per day.
• The algorithm now prioritizes the time members spend reading and engaging, not just the act of publication itself.
• And the one that shocked me the most: our older articles rarely get rediscovered without deliberate links or engagement.

That last point was like a slap in the face!

A year later, what I’ve discovered is that, as I mentioned before, previously written articles — even the good ones — almost never appear in feeds anymore, which is very disappointing. AI and mass-publishing practices have changed the landscape: Medium now filters articles, and the platform now favors members’ reading time.

Two Articles a Day? Maybe Not So Good

The idea of publishing two articles a day may not be as beneficial as we think. The algorithm tends to push forward the newest articles we write, so if we publish two, they end up competing with each other, which is not advantageous.

• Timing matters.
• Quality over quantity (though I’ve been hearing this from Medium forever, and I’ve been here for six years, so it’s not exactly new).
• Engagement revives old content, meaning we can share links to older articles so people can read and comment on them — keeping them alive!

The key is to adapt to the new Medium and its new way of working:

1. Publish one article per day consistently.
2. Create interesting titles so people are encouraged to click and read.
3. Use links to older articles to prevent them from being forgotten forever.
4. Engage with comments, since the algorithm favors that.

Even after being away for an entire year, returning to Medium has made me realize how much I love the platform and writing here.

Medium is not broken — it’s just different, and we all now need to adapt and make the most of it.

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