AIM TO BE
My Numero Uno
What Medium Needs to Do

Medium–the only 2 mediums I had heard about before joining www.medium.com, was a medium who talks to the spirits and conveys the message ahead to you (had only heard of this though haven’t ever tried) and the other was the most famous Medical Medium — Anthony, the Healing Genius.
And then one fine day about 2 years ago, while surfing the net, searching for different writing blogs, I came across Medium.com.
I studied it’s nuances for a day and joined it. Post joining was regular and read a lot but wasn’t writing in it then. And then, one fine day it got lost somewhere in the rush in my mailbox and became the tale — A Forgotten Island until a couple of months ago when I rediscovered it to fall in love with it all over again. Yes … it’s now for keeps, a bond of a lifetime and thus I enjoy every minute of being on it.
On Medium, there is so much to learn, to give, and absorb that it keeps you full. By full I mean, fullness in emotions, thoughts, learning, and so on.
I simply love it and will forever and I just wish it grows and grows and has the best to offer. All it needs to do is just sort out some glitches which are hindrances and do bother at times. I get pretty irritated at times and I guess others too would be feeling that way.
So below I’m penning down the glitches Medium needs to sort to be my Numero Uno.
- Add more fonts and space formats for us writers to present varied writing styles.
- Add a color font as well as background color too.
- Have a separate column for the stories — yes just the stories we publish and a separate one for the comments we give. Since these two are clubbed right now it’s difficult to sort at times when we are in a hurry to find something.
- Have more Curators and ask them to pick different people. They should leave aside favoritism as I have heard it’s present.
- The auto-curation too should have a spin and choose a mode and not pick the same person again for at least 3 days. This way others too can get a chance of being read.
- It can have an alphabetical index, which is just visible to the writers.
- Fix the 👏 clap feature as it hangs in between at times. Can have claps marked in multiples of 5 to choose from.
- Lastly, have a separate notification bell for editing features and also a no restriction on the number of publication limit cap for editors.
I feel if Medium even tries to solve these few glitches, it will move ahead in time and be MY NUMERO UNO.
©️ Geetika Sethi, August 2020
