Too Long; Didn't Read
To many of <a href="https://medium.com/@Medium" data-anchor-type="2" data-user-id="504c7870fdb6" data-action-value="504c7870fdb6" data-action="show-user-card" data-action-type="hover" target="_blank">Medium</a>’s fans like me, <a href="https://medium.com/@ev" data-anchor-type="2" data-user-id="268314bb7e7e" data-action-value="268314bb7e7e" data-action="show-user-card" data-action-type="hover" target="_blank">Ev Williams</a>’s post yesterday on the future of the platform comes to a surprise. The company is making some major changes, including laying off 1/3 of its staff, closing its offices in New York and Washington DC, and setting up a new, “different — and bolder — approach” to reinvent the system that supports online content.