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The Partner Payment Expansion: Medium’s Final Stand?

Adebayo Adeniran
3 min readSep 10, 2023

Is our beloved platform staring into the abyss?

Annie Spratt image via Unsplash

The world is governed by signals.

Signals which indicate the direction in which the markets are moving or whether we are on the cusp of seismic change.

When Buster Benson wrote that article in July about what was to come in August, I knew that things were never going to be the same. And this was evinced by my comments in his piece:

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And just as I predicted two months ago, it really has come to pass that changes to the algorithm is having a profound effect on the established players here.

Only yesterday, I read a post from umair haque about the new direction in which he is headed —our man is building his own platform to host his thoughts and ideas.

In his cryptic piece, our man had the following to say about Medium:

I think that’s going to have to be the place I write most from now on. We’ll discuss why later. Medium…sigh. It’s a discussion I don’t know if I’m ready to get into right now, fully. I feel disappointed with how they’re managing the platform. Or not managing it towards any…

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Adebayo Adeniran
Adebayo Adeniran

Written by Adebayo Adeniran

A lifelong bibliophile, who seeks to unleash his energy on as many subjects as possible

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