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More Stupid Medium Stats Tricks
Illuminati Ganga Agent 86
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I’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.<br>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 thing that Medium is supposed to be doing for you, and they don’t.<br>Frankly the stats presentation would make more sense if we thought of it as a dark UI pattern, that the UI is structured the way it is because they do not want you to be able to achieve what the UI is nominally supposed to help you do. Most dark UI patterns are for shutting down accounts, nobody wants you to shut down your account, so the UI for shutting down the account makes that intentionally difficult.<br>It seems the UI for Medium stats makes it intentionally difficult to understand two things<br>How traffic to your writing is actually going.<br>How the algorithms Medium uses for analyzing your traffic actually work.
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A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D.
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