Slight offtopic, I didn’t even realize that medium has a frontpage and recommendations. Like in, you can sign up not only to pay money for views. Also, the aver

Slight offtopic, I didn’t even realize that medium has a frontpage and recommendations. Like in, you can sign up not only to pay money for views. Also, the average post quality itself is irrelevant when you read it occasionally only through shared links (e.g. on HN). But what’s annoying is that low-quality medium articles dominate SERPs. “I see it, I skip it” is common in my circle. Brand damage done. But it’s not the worst offender, tbh. A whole horde of blogs like “I apt-installed foo and tried to run it with some arguments, voila” is also there. edit: I mean if it wasn’t there in SERPs, I wouldn’t even associate it with low-quality posts.