I completely agree. I don't miss imploring readers to hit my referral link, but I think the idea was great and I'm sad it's gone. I don't think it was quite the failure Medium claimed it to be. On my end, I'd certainly found it to be very useful.

Glad to hear I could inspire you to try the same! That's great about the Star Trek piece, and I'm hardly surprised. That's exactly what the link should be used for if you ask me.

Of course, I think the best would be a return to some semblance of the system in place before. Thanks for reading, Kenny!!