Breana, there is a BIG difference between "increased reads" that help YOU and Medium, and increased reads that help writers. It does me no good to have a reader distracted by a random story featured in the sidebar. At. All. I find this rationale disingenuous. https://chrisaraymond.medium.com/dear-medium-your-related-algorithm-sucks-and-its-not-helping-writers-4a5ece2da109