A great article, but I circle back to your early comment here to observe that this is the problem--Medium has never lived up to this promise. They have always shown clear favoritism toward tech and entrepreneurship topics, as indicated by your table. They always have and still promote and Boost tech bro and biz bro topics to the detriment of other topics.
What Medium has yet to realize is that people who write and read about tech and business topics have many, many places to go to fulfill their desires and have no reason to stick around Medium. Sure enough, last August when Medium wisely changed the algorithm to stop rewarding clickbait stories, many of the tech bro and biz bro writers realized they couldn’t remain profitable on medium so they stomped off.
Yet, Medium still hasn’t realized that they aren’t going to win back those people. They still haven’t realized that their path to success is in actually democratizing content creation and distribution. They can and need to embrace long-form serious content on topics that aren’t covered by dozens of other Web sites. The can and need to be a Web site dedicated to quality writing rather than trendy fluff, either tech or nontech fluff. Every time they start to show signs of breaking out of the treadmill and getting serious and eclectic, they snap back to the same old blandness.
That’s why your tables show dead publications. Medium hasn’t awakened and become truly alive.
