>This is because all of the articles are presented in exactly the same way with the exact same layout features. But what about communities like Hacker Noon? If

>This is because all of the articles are presented in exactly the same way with the exact same layout features. But what about communities like Hacker Noon? If I publish a medium article in such a community, at least the header differs from the regular medium's one > People who are prepared to wade through all of the above on the off chance that they'll strike it lucky and their article will end up with a few thousand shares have worked out how to game Medium From my personal observations, sharing a link to an interesting medium article in Reddit and HN can generate quite a traffic. I've got 13.5K reads for one of my stories by using this way, that's hardly any kind of "game" can be found there.