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Re:Don't Post Evergreen Content on Medium by tkrunning on Thursday December 13, 2018 @04:43PM (#18676409)
Medium has quietly removed the support article describing this, but it used to live here: https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/227017408-Set-cano...

Sadly, it's not archived anywhere I could find, but it did mention that you could send them a CSV file of up to 50 URLs to update the canonical links for.

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Re:Don't Post Evergreen Content on Medium by jnbiche on Friday December 14, 2018 @06:12PM (#18685776)
That doesn't contradict anything the agent said. I believe you that they could previously set canonical links. But it's highly likely that upper management changed that policy (I'm surprised they allowed it to begin with).
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Re:Don't Post Evergreen Content on Medium by tkrunning on Sunday December 16, 2018 @01:46PM (#18694437)
IMO, it's not too surprising that they tried to be a bit more writer friendly initially (to attract more quality writers and larger publications). I guess it no longer fit with their new business objectives, which is why they quietly removed it this fall.
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