The Sharing Glitch That Discourages Your Readers From Clapping
How Medium’s link format might be impacting your stats and crushing your ego
Since Medium began releasing its latest raft of changes glitches have popped up everywhere. Some have been obvious and have given rise to collective expressions of frustration. However, there’s one that has gone largely unnoticed but is worth paying attention to, particularly if you have claimed your own subdomain as many of us did when the opportunity was presented to us.
Now, each of us has our own preferred way of using the Medium platform…
As a writer, nothing beats getting on our lap or desktops and writing from the comfort of a proper keyboard. Our computers offer the full editorial capacity available to us such as submitting our work to publications or properly embedding links — which the mobile device apps do not.
As a reader, many of us prefer to hunker down on the sofa with a coffee and our tablets or phones, and read via the Medium mobile app. As we read we highlight and clap our favourite pieces. These functions work smoothly in the app… at least they do in my Android devices. Better in fact than when on our computers, where clapping is an annoyingly slow process.
