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Medium Limits Access to Draft Sharing!

Louise Peacock
1 min readMar 4, 2020

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Well, here I go again, another rant.

Looks like Medium has decided that the idea of sharing draft links is a bad one, and it is now impossible to share a draft link with anyone unless they are a Medium member.

This is a really annoying development for me, because as a responsible journalist, when I write an article about someone, I like to run a pre-published draft past them.

This gives them a chance to point out any factual errors I might have made, to suggest additional information that I could use, etc.

Most of my article subjects are NOT Medium members, nor are they ever likely to be Medium members. Sharing a draft link with them does not really hurt Medium.

But NOT being able to freely share a draft link causes me additional annoyance and inconvenience.

WTF Medium?

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Louise Peacock
Louise Peacock

Written by Louise Peacock

Louise Peacock is a writer, garden designer, Reiki practitioner, singer-songwriter & animal activist. Favorite insult “Eat cake & choke” On Medium since 2016.

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