More Stupid Medium Stats Tricks
The article discusses the inadequacies of Medium's statistics system. It highlights issues with how stats are processed and presented, making it difficult for users to understand their traffic and engagement. The author suggests that the user interface may be designed to obscure rather than clarify these metrics.
- ▪Medium's stats are criticized for being broken and unhelpful.
- ▪Users face challenges navigating between different pages to access their stats.
- ▪The article suggests that the UI may be intentionally designed to confuse users about their traffic and algorithm workings.
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Member-only storyMore Stupid Medium Stats TricksIlluminati Ganga Agent 869 min read·Just now--ListenShareI’ve written before about how Medium stats are just obviously broken in some way, that the stats are not useful for finding anything out about what is actually going on, which is partially a problem of however they are processing the stats but also a problem with how they present the stats.The problems with processing the stats can be seen in the UI itself, there are stats that are processed hourly and daily, and these stats are spread across different pages so that in order to see what is going on you would need to navigate between these pages, obviously as you write more articles it becomes impossible to do this as a human being, it would need to be automated, but this is the very…
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