I would love a section, Ariel, explaining WHY we need a boost. Substack doesn't have a boost system. Youtube doesn't have a boost system. Instagram doesn't have a boost system. Facebook doesn't have a boost system. LinkedIn doesn't have a boost system. TikTok doesn't have a boost system. They have algorithms that work and give people the content they naturally want and need. I don't really understand why, when quality is so often objective and disagreed upon, why an internal team of boosters looking over every nomination and selecting which ones are the best is needed or even, according to you all, the best approach here?

I don't understand why a platform that's so awesome and advanced in so many ways has decided that they're going to manually select stories to boost.

Why not let an algorithm do that automatically? Why is Medium doing manually what literally every other platform lets an algorithm do automatically?