Hi, Marcus. Thanks for sharing your experience. I wrote a similar article but with my opposite experience. Listing out out my much lowered views and reads for this month. I've not seen any increase but rather diminished views and income after two great months where I was well over 100$ for monthly earnings. I engage and write 5-7 days a week. I submitted my article for publication and it was turned down. It's the first article I've ever had rejected by a publisher. We all need to be transparent about this new program, as it's not working for all who join. Now today, I see no readers or views from yesterday which I know is inaccurate. I wonder if there's a glitch somewhere and I'm going to write to Medium today and rework my article (which admittedly was filled with anger.) But, I'm glad you had success! Best wishes going forward.