Hurdles in Medium for Academic Content Publishing

A couple of things to remember about scholarly content in Medium: it does not allow for easy formatting of tables, a lot of academic content depends on displaying tabular data. Second, there is no easy way to have metadata that will allow search engines to identify and display them to people who may be searching for information. This second aspect is important. Suppose X has written an article on identifying wrong assumptions in an article written by Y but while X is on Medium, Y is not. If X were to write it in a journal as a letter that critique, Y would be notified or at least would have a way to know that a response to Y's paper was posted. Unless Y follows X on Medium, it is unlikely that X's piece will be seen by Y, and not just Y, perhaps all interested people, _unless_, and this is Zulie's assumption that X will take steps to make the piece easily accessible to a wider audience, but it does not necessarily span the gulf between X and Y (which Medium could, if they had provision to include some form of meta data that would make Medium made available as a repository of preprints in much the same way as arXiv or others). We hope if Medium managers are serious about its readers and writers publishing academic contents in Medium, then some form of providing presentation of image and tables (not as images) need to be factored in.