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The Rise and Down of Medium-owned Publications, Data-Based Analysis
The Medium official team has created several publications themselves, including LEVEL, ZORA, Marker, Elemental, GEN, OneZero, Forge, Human Parts, Index, Debugger, and The Bold Italic.
Here is a simple introduction for these pubs:
Most of them were created in 2019.
After they were created, Medium forced them to the top of each user’s homepage.
Whether you like the content in these pubs or not, you cannot hide them from your homepage. At this time, these official pubs have an asymmetric advantage in competition with third-party pubs and independent writers.
After 2 years passed, on Mar 23, 2021, Evan, the CEO of Medium, announced that they will lower the commission budgets of those official pubs:
