After the hunt for 100 followers, claps and publications have disappeared

The sensational news explodes in general silence: the interactions have been lost

The news is sensational and detonates like a deafening explosion in the frozen silence of the world of Medium: there are no more claps and publications, the traces of the interactions have been lost.

To be exact, the disappearance of comments and feedback from the articles published on the well-known platform began in January, immediately after the end of the infamous hunt for 100 dreamers, as I called them, also known as Reader or vulgarly as followers.

That frantic search for the first hundred followers actually triggered a certain movement in the portal: a crazy exchange of pleasures and favors among users was ignited, especially in the last days of 2021, near to the end.

Then nothing. Not only have readers suddenly disappeared with their phrases and their likes but there is also a mysterious phenomenon that is affecting publications, as I mentioned earlier: here we almost enter the field of the detective novel, the thriller, the film noir to Hitchcock.

Many publications, in fact, no longer update their pages: this means that they are no longer reporting the articles proposed by users. I personally have looked at several “magazines” and I can say that there is probably more life on Mars: I was just unlucky or can you confirm? Indeed, on this occasion, I take the opportunity to ask: do you recommend publications in particular?

And so I find myself talking to myself and writing for my eyes only, like a lone swan in a desert oasis. Meanwhile, authorities and institutions continue to search for awake users, generous claps, surviving publications, and intelligent comments, while coroners are ready to draft the final report to certify Medium’s clinical death.