Reverie
1 min readJun 15, 2021

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I thought "views" were the same thing as clicks? Whereas "reads" were the number of times people read to the end of the article?

https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/215108608-Your-stats

Views aren't how many times you show up in people's feed. You do have a degree of control over how many views you get because that's the clickthrough rate. The titles and subtitles of your articles are what influence clicks, cause that's what tells people what the topic of the article is and whether it's something they're likely to enjoy.

That's why I believe it's what you're writing about that's making fewer people interested and causing the decline in views (clicks). But the core audience that relate to everything you write, will always love everything you write (and that's great).

Like I said in my previous comment, you're not a bad person or a bad writer for writing about these kind of things that get lower engagement, I was just making the point that not everything is something that large amounts of people want to read. You have your core audience who get value from everything you do (which is awesome), and you have your wider audience of people (like me) who come across some of your articles on evangelicalism, or fatphobia or intuitive eating etc and get value from those particular things rather than a fourth Rachel Hollis article, or another article about how you feel like a failure, or another article complaining about Medium when what you consider "low engagement" is way higher than 99% of people on Medium ever experience.

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Reverie
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