Medium has been working on purging fiction and poetry for some time now. If you are logged out and come to Medium like someone who has never been here before you will find ZERO evidence that fiction or poetry even exists here. You will find none in any of the feeds at the top of the page. The only way you will find any is if you know to type in ‘fiction’ or ‘poetry’ into the search bar. It is painfully obvious that Medium is trying to focus exclusively on the narrow focus of those non-fiction feeds at the top of the page while doing their best to hide everything else. This new subscription model (I didn’t get the email) seems to be their next step in the purge process. If we write fiction or poetry and soon find out that we have to pay to keep our accounts in order to publish our work while at the same time Medium does everything in their power to hide our work then that will be the point at which it will be futile for any writer of fiction or poetry to remain here. That is the point at which Medium will have achieved its objective. Their purge will be complete.