> We decided we needed to take a different — and bolder — approach to this problem. I don't know what model they can come up with except the Ad-revenue model f

> We decided we needed to take a different — and bolder — approach to this problem. I don't know what model they can come up with except the Ad-revenue model from per post views. This is not a tech issue, but an issue with the business of Internet. Since they have got a lot of good quality publishers, they may go for a subscription model, but then it would not seem very open to new publishers/readers. They may go for a per-blog subscription model for some high-quality publishers like The Economist, Backchannel etc. Another thing about Medium that gets me boiling is their news feed, its always populated by very popular bloggers and I have to literally scroll a mile to get any post from a new or a small blogger with less than 10K followers on twitter. So it becomes about Popularity rather than Quality(Starbucks articles about Christmas gifts is not as good as my CS Professor's ramblings). So to get those posts I would have to unfollow other popular bloggers. There is nothing like Facebook's "See it First" approach. Only reason I use Facebook these days is for its "See it First Feature" which lets me control my news feed really well. This really looks like failing CEO's post from here. But they have got so much content from good posters like Addy Osmani, Kevin Rose etc, that it would be hard to see it go. I don't know why many posters on Medium gave up their own managed blogs. I know it makes posts look pretty, but so does Wordpress (which even gives a lot of customization options).