Six Suggestions For Coach Tony
Based on the YouTube interviews with Medium writers
Hey Tony, congratulations and hope we haven’t worn you out yet.
I listened to the interviews you did with Zulie, Sinem and Amardeep and I have some thoughts.
I know, me and everyone else.
As I listened, I made notes about things you mentioned and how they play with the way Medium functions and came up with a list of suggestions.
No rambling preamble, I’ll just dive in.
1. Can you bring back “dismiss this story”?
We have a quality problem. I know that’s why you put the “show less like this” option front and center.
I don’t use the show less feature because it means an algorithm decides what’s “like this” in the first place. I don’t want an algorithm hiding chunks of content because it thinks it’s like something else.
I just ignore what I don’t like. No everyone seems to be able to do that. Hence the people writing meta posts about banning meta posts.
We used to have a “dismiss this story” option. There’s nothing for an algorithm to figure out. It’s basically “get this off my homepage.” It lets the user decide. I used that feature a lot. Made the…
