" I plan to continue writing and progressing." I agree with you Kennedie. I write freely, without worrying about a publication editor having an issue with my story or format. I write, not worrying about distribution or curation because it makes no logical sense to me. There doen't really seem to be a consistent method to the madness. Once upon a time, every other story I wrote was distributed, even when I self published. I haven't changed the way I do things, or my understanding of what works. I follow the guidelines, just like before, so the only thing that's different is that Medium stopped selecting the stories. I shrugged it off, and I simply keep writing. What else can we do? :-)