Medium – Welcome to the internet’s first open paywall

Re:Medium – Welcome to the internet’s first open paywall by panarky on Sunday March 04, 2018 @05:35PM (#16517211)

They're being tricky about how payments are computed.

Lots of black-box mumbo jumbo about "engagement" and "reading time" and "claps", but nothing specific or concrete.

If 2 million members pay $5 each per month, that's $10M. Does Medium keep 10% for themselves and distribute the rest to authors?

Or do they keep 70% for themselves?

If I'm going to put my content behind a paywall, I deserve some idea of how the revenue is shared between me and the platform.

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Re:Medium – Welcome to the internet’s first open paywall by jacques_chester on Sunday March 04, 2018 @06:14PM (#16517398)

> They're being tricky about how payments are computed.

I would be too. I imagine it will be proportional to views and time-on-page. Being too specific will encourage automation.

Disclosure: I have on-again, off-again worked on pretty much the same concept for several years. As have several others.

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