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This New Medium Stat Tells Me Everything I Wanted to Know About My Earnings
Finally, they’re showing me what I want to see
Remember what happened in October?
The MPP changed and everyone seemed to lose their ever-loving minds over it. Story after story about how to hack the new system, why it was great, why it was trash, why it was the sign of the times or frustrating beyond belief.
For me, a fairly new writer who was a Medium Lurker for about a year before I ever published a single piece, it didn’t really make sense. I lacked the historical context of how the platform operated in its early days. All I could do was chalk it up to an evolution to a more sophisticated system, shaped by the data accumulated over the previous years.
I tried to take it in stride, which is really all any of us can do since we don’t know exactly what’s going on behind the scenes. Sure, we can guess and make assumptions based on the patterns we see or what we can gather from our own research, but I figure that time spent digging might be better spent writing. I published more stories in November than I ever had but my earnings took a dip from my all-time high.
Did that mean the new MPP earnings structure wasn’t going to benefit me?
