As someone who also posts to medium I believe I will also slowly begin making the switch as I want my writing to be available to all people with no paywall. Thank you for informing me of this change
HUGE respect to you! I’m in a similar migration from Patreon to Substack, and it’s no joke. I’d been reading less of your work because of the paywall and am grateful that it will be accessible again. 🙏🏼❤️
It's great to see you here, and I appreciate the effort to move your writing to Substack. I subscribed to Medium solely to read your work. UNMASKING AUTISM was a revelatory book.
Devon, I think you missed a few things. Medium writers are still allowed to post free articles on Medium. Even retire some older articles from the materials behind the paywall to attract new members. The best thing about having the paid membership is that just one membership fee makes the entire catalog available to all members. That does not happen here, where we have to pay per writer, or just be more satisfied to give and get free subscriptions. Medium now pays the membership writers according to how much readership and interaction they attract from the membership. This encourages writers to present better quality work, not quantity. I now make money every day on Medium. I haven't made new funds on Substack since the early days of friends showing their support. I still want to publish here. There are ways Substack is set up I prefer for some of my work. But I can't afford to work for free. And I can't afford to pay a membership per writer to support anyone else here. Last week I hit a reasonable per day income level on Medium. I am able to support any other membership writer I read. After two months of the new way they are doing things. I am figuring out what to do about time spent here on Substack, but since I am getting more income and response out of Medium I am concentrating my efforts there at this time. But I really don't want to give up on Substack!
While I fully understand your choice it's sad, that the only alternative working well is a platform that's well known for openly supporting anti-trans groups and authors. But as I said I don't know an alternative apart from hosting everything yourself. And even then you share the problems of being less well discoverable.
and of having to pay for hosting rather than receiving compensation for the writing. It's tough. I do think creating a website is the long-term goal, but it's not feasible right now.
Hi, I'm trying to sign up to your paid tier here and getting an error message:
"This Connect account cannot currently make live charges. The `requirements.disabled_reason` property on the account will provide information about why this account is currently disabled. If you are a customer trying to make a purchase, please contact the owner of this site. Your transaction has not been processed."
I believe they might have been having tech issues today. Let me know if you keep having problems, and thank you so much for wanting to support the work! I will look into it as well.
Why I left Medium for Substack? They cancelled me. No warning. No excuse. No explanation. Nothing to appeal. After publishing on Medium for about 6 months they refunded my payment portion, cancelled my membership - I can't even see other's posts, and deleted all my content.
Hey Devon, I just got done reading “Unmasking Autism” and it was so eye opening and affirming that I bought a second copy to lend out. Thank you for doing what you do.
The main reason for my comment, though, is that I found a knockoff version of your book on Amazon in Spanish that someone is trying to pass off as their own work.
I wanted to let you know in case you want to report it for copyright infringement. Here’s the link: AUTISM UNMASKING: DETECTING THE NEW FACES OF NEURODIVERSITY https://a.co/d/2Q1ZUG5
What took you so long to leave Medium? They always charged $5 for subscription and kept all the money for the corporation and VC! It's like a corporate media where the writer gets peanuts: less than 10% of the earnings. I'm asking since you've been a promoter of Medium in their blog post.
For the longest time, Medium had a "pourous pay wall" that allowed users three free reads per month without a membership. As I published only two pieces per month, this seemed like a perfect way to both receive compensation for my work as a writer and researcher, and to ensure my work was widely available to everyone at the same time. I liked how discoverable posts on Medium were, and how friendly to sharing the platform was, compared to Substack, which can kind of drive away unfamiliar readers with it's initial pop-ups requesting email addresses. Medium made it possible for someone to read without being asked to give any personal contact information up, and it had quite a large readership and as a company was far more supportive of trans writers than Substack is (this site platforms and pays a large advance to transphobes like Jesse Singal). Unfortunately, once Medium made the paywall irontight and started requiring logins to use it, this removed many of its advantages. So here I am.
You’re one of my favorite (public) people for (among many reasons) your genius at making connections and explaining taboo subjects. But this is also - your real, and lasting, solidarity with the communities you write about. I’m excited to support your work whenever I’m able.
As someone who also posts to medium I believe I will also slowly begin making the switch as I want my writing to be available to all people with no paywall. Thank you for informing me of this change
HUGE respect to you! I’m in a similar migration from Patreon to Substack, and it’s no joke. I’d been reading less of your work because of the paywall and am grateful that it will be accessible again. 🙏🏼❤️
It's great to see you here, and I appreciate the effort to move your writing to Substack. I subscribed to Medium solely to read your work. UNMASKING AUTISM was a revelatory book.
You’re a treasure Devon. Always appreciate you.
Thank you for doing this and writing about it transparently. I appreciate your thoughtfulness, intentionality, and commitment to living your values.
Thank you so much!!
Devon, I think you missed a few things. Medium writers are still allowed to post free articles on Medium. Even retire some older articles from the materials behind the paywall to attract new members. The best thing about having the paid membership is that just one membership fee makes the entire catalog available to all members. That does not happen here, where we have to pay per writer, or just be more satisfied to give and get free subscriptions. Medium now pays the membership writers according to how much readership and interaction they attract from the membership. This encourages writers to present better quality work, not quantity. I now make money every day on Medium. I haven't made new funds on Substack since the early days of friends showing their support. I still want to publish here. There are ways Substack is set up I prefer for some of my work. But I can't afford to work for free. And I can't afford to pay a membership per writer to support anyone else here. Last week I hit a reasonable per day income level on Medium. I am able to support any other membership writer I read. After two months of the new way they are doing things. I am figuring out what to do about time spent here on Substack, but since I am getting more income and response out of Medium I am concentrating my efforts there at this time. But I really don't want to give up on Substack!
While I fully understand your choice it's sad, that the only alternative working well is a platform that's well known for openly supporting anti-trans groups and authors. But as I said I don't know an alternative apart from hosting everything yourself. And even then you share the problems of being less well discoverable.
and of having to pay for hosting rather than receiving compensation for the writing. It's tough. I do think creating a website is the long-term goal, but it's not feasible right now.
Hi, I'm trying to sign up to your paid tier here and getting an error message:
"This Connect account cannot currently make live charges. The `requirements.disabled_reason` property on the account will provide information about why this account is currently disabled. If you are a customer trying to make a purchase, please contact the owner of this site. Your transaction has not been processed."
I believe they might have been having tech issues today. Let me know if you keep having problems, and thank you so much for wanting to support the work! I will look into it as well.
Why I left Medium for Substack? They cancelled me. No warning. No excuse. No explanation. Nothing to appeal. After publishing on Medium for about 6 months they refunded my payment portion, cancelled my membership - I can't even see other's posts, and deleted all my content.
Hey Devon, I just got done reading “Unmasking Autism” and it was so eye opening and affirming that I bought a second copy to lend out. Thank you for doing what you do.
The main reason for my comment, though, is that I found a knockoff version of your book on Amazon in Spanish that someone is trying to pass off as their own work.
I wanted to let you know in case you want to report it for copyright infringement. Here’s the link: AUTISM UNMASKING: DETECTING THE NEW FACES OF NEURODIVERSITY https://a.co/d/2Q1ZUG5
What took you so long to leave Medium? They always charged $5 for subscription and kept all the money for the corporation and VC! It's like a corporate media where the writer gets peanuts: less than 10% of the earnings. I'm asking since you've been a promoter of Medium in their blog post.
For the longest time, Medium had a "pourous pay wall" that allowed users three free reads per month without a membership. As I published only two pieces per month, this seemed like a perfect way to both receive compensation for my work as a writer and researcher, and to ensure my work was widely available to everyone at the same time. I liked how discoverable posts on Medium were, and how friendly to sharing the platform was, compared to Substack, which can kind of drive away unfamiliar readers with it's initial pop-ups requesting email addresses. Medium made it possible for someone to read without being asked to give any personal contact information up, and it had quite a large readership and as a company was far more supportive of trans writers than Substack is (this site platforms and pays a large advance to transphobes like Jesse Singal). Unfortunately, once Medium made the paywall irontight and started requiring logins to use it, this removed many of its advantages. So here I am.
I really appreciate your take on freely accessible content. Thank you for your writings and offerings
You’re one of my favorite (public) people for (among many reasons) your genius at making connections and explaining taboo subjects. But this is also - your real, and lasting, solidarity with the communities you write about. I’m excited to support your work whenever I’m able.