I have been following your for, I guess, years. I’ve been here since 2015. I didn’t paywall my writing until around 2018,or 2017. I’d have to check. Whatever.

Mostly I enjoy reading what you write, so I’m trying, but failing, to find a nice way to say this.

If there is anything more tedious — OK not more tedious, but right up there — than how-to-make-bank-on-Medium articles it is Medium-sucks-my-stats/income-ha[ve]/[s]-dropped-bring-back-the-good-old-days articles. Such are right up there with those articles by conservatives lamenting the lack of “conservative voices” on Medium. To those people I say and have said well write me a sense-making conservative article and be sure to tag me. I will read it.

Crickets.

I never read the sorts of articles you lament yet find plenty to occupy my mind here. My Medium income, while minuscule, has grown steadily, if very slowly, to the point where last month I actually cleared a whopping $27! My stash of curated/distributed articles has grown so I guess that helps. However, it’s a good thing I don’t depend on Medium income for anything.

Writers I follow diligently go silent but I keep finding new ones. It’s a kind of fluid tribe. The most fun I’ve had has been recently since I became an editor on MuddyUm. I wouldn’t miss the weekly Zoom editorial meeting for anything. Everybody is so funny! Write something funny and drop it on us! I’ll look out for it.

If you are truly leaving I will miss you, as I miss everyone who I used to read, like Thunderpuff. Sorry, guy who wrote that — I think it was a comment — lamenting the disappearance of Thunderpuff but she’s gone, Medium is still here, and new people arrive all the time. Sturgeon’s Law holds — what’s the point of complaining about that? It would seem like complaining about the weather.

Oh why am I going on like this? Like everything in the universe Medium changes and will continue to change. I’m sorry it isn’t working for you. I’ve enjoyed your work.

But,

Don’t let the door you hit you in the ass on your way out.