I’ve been scammed and gaslighted by Medium ever since they promised including Brazil in the Partner Program, which was promised to September then postponed to November and then to “early 24”, which hasn’t happened yet even though we’re almost in May. I’ve paid for y subscription all these months and I already have a Stripe account properly set up for ages (they’ve Stripe as an excuse before going silent about this) Development is clear not focusing on that. During this time I’ve received countless emails asking me to also subscribe to Friend of Medium so that I’d better support the authors. But these authors don’t include me! I’m basically paying from an underdevelopment country to make writers like me, but from the global North, richer.

Estava lendo um texto no navegador e nos primeiros parágrafos existia um alerta de que para continuar a ler tinha que baixar o app. Após baixar o app, fazer login e tentar ler o mesmo texto, o site permite a leitura de mais 3 parágrafos, e avisa que para ler tudo preciso assinar. Esse é um péssimo jeito de vender uma assinatura, algo bem dark design mesmo. É muito mais honesto informar de início que o conteúdo só pode ser lido com assinatura.

Hello! The app is perfect! But you need the option of automatic translation of articles into Portuguese from Brazil. Even if it was only a premium feature in the monthly subscription. The app is very limited only in English and the number of articles in Portuguese is low, not worth a subscription. PUT AUTOMATIC TRANSLATION