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An Analysis of 10k Claps on Medium (medium.com)
over 3 years ago from Jason Li, Design Co-founder @ TomYum [tomyum.design]
12 comments
James Young, over 3 years ago I honestly still have no clue how they think such a weird way of showing appreciation of an article can work.
Ariel Verber, over 3 years ago
it's their business model. you're a paying user + you give a lot of claps to someone = you give them some of the money you paid. the # of claps you give basically mean "what percentage of the money you're paying medium, would you want to be distributed to the author?"
Jim Silverman, over 3 years ago
yup. it's just like throwing pennies at the author's feet.
Jason Li, over 3 years ago
Which makes me wonder. If you really really loved an article, do you give 1 clap (a larger % of your money pie) or 50 claps?
similarly, would you have a finite number of claps to give? if it's tied to your your monthly fee, i'd imagine they'd have to add a clap cap. or else you'd be diluting your claps.
Vipul. Mishra, over 3 years ago
Amazing idea. Hope someone from @Medium is listening.. :)
Deepani I, over 3 years ago
Agree !!
Cameron Rohani, over 3 years ago Interesting breakdown Jason. I just gave your article 39 claps which is one of the rarest increments of claps possible.
Pablo Stanley, over 3 years ago
I just gave it 39 claps too. YOU'RE NOT UNIQUE ANYMORE!!!!
Thanks guys. You're also welcome to give 40, 41, 42, or 43!
Lol..
Hey everyone, this is just a follow up to my last post: https://medium.com/tomyum/our-redesign-of-mediums-claps-and-why-they-may-not-have-chosen-to-do-it-this-way-edc9ff6b586e
It received a lot of applauses so I figured it would be interesting to break down that data, and use that insight to see how Claps can be iterated.
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