Medium’s E mail Listing Not Working? And different Medium bugs. | by Teri Radichel | Bugs That Chunk | Jan, 2023

January 17, 2023

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I’m attempting to publish a narrative and ship it to subscribers however Medium’s electronic mail listing function doesn’t appear to be working.

I’ve enabled electronic mail listing performance and you may subscribe right here. I revealed just a few posts lately and I didn’t see the associated electronic mail so I examined a bit extra. I subscribed to my very own feed with some alternate emails simply to see if the e-mail performance was working as a result of I wasn’t getting or seeing the e-mail.

I revealed a few new posts and selected the choice to ship to subscribers however didn’t get the emails.

I additionally had some pals strive subscribing to see in the event that they acquired the emails — nope. No luck.

I’ve had plenty of issues with Medium currently and I hope they will repair them quickly or validate that they aren’t points, in the event that they imagine that to be the case:

The paywall is just too straightforward to bypass. If you happen to assume you’re earning money off that you simply’re not. Medium’s bug bounty particularly excludes this. How are folks alleged to generate income in your platform?
There’s no solution to flip off RSS. Persons are blatantly copying my content material utilizing RSS feeds.
Typically after I publish it says that another person is publishing my put up and I can’t publish it.
I must do some further integrity checking to see that my posts are usually not being modified by a third-party after publishing as I’ve had some unusual issues occur — however there’s an opportunity that would simply be me. I would want to do extra testing with file integrity checking to show it.
Different individuals are basically jumbling the phrases of my posts and re-publishing on Medium. It might be that these are simply ChatGPT bots however I’m undecided. It’s not clear how Medium goes to struggle that downside. Difficult, certainly.
Formatting on Medium modifications periodically and breaks issues I’ve revealed prior to now. There’s no solution to do sure issues like tables, that are important to speak sure concepts — with out linking out to another Excel-like platform.
Medium could have some caching points. I attempt to publish and my modifications typically gained’t present up till I attempt to pressure the cache to replace. I hope that attackers are usually not in a position to change the content material of tales utilizing the cache. That will contain integrity checks with what’s within the cache and the unique put up, which I hope Medium is doing.
It doesn’t matter what I publish, I get $2. My hits went up over 5,000 and I acquired many extra subscribers, reads, and claps and I nonetheless acquired $2.
Once I tried to log into my linked Stripe account, one thing is improper with it. Since I solely get $2 I haven’t been taking note of it. I’m going to want to revisit that to see that there’s not some downside with Stripe or Medium in that regard. I don’t recall seeing my payouts currently however I must double verify. Hopefully Medium has carried out correct penetration testing on this facet of their platform and Stripe has accomplished their half as properly. The factors of integration are tough, since who actually an permit the pentest in that case? One thing for the 2 corporations to think about.
I had points with blatant reposting of the conent in my blogs onto different websites by repubishing the RSS feed. The creator claimed that the issue was the best way the Medium RSS feed works, which is wrong and damaged. I don’t know if that’s true. I hope that Medium can do extra to assist authors with plagiarism. That makes it worthwhile to put up on Medium.

General, I just like the simplicity of Medium and I take advantage of it to convey ideas. It’s positively not a platform for earning money, and sadly I’m not positive concerning the reliability of the platform in the mean time.

Teri Radichel

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