Content Quality Decline

This throws out the possibility of high quality content.

The quality of the content is definitely hit and miss, with more seeming to be the latter. The problem with mediums (no pun intended) is that at some point the source becomes popular, which does gain the benefit of reaching a wider audience. The downside is that with that popularity comes noise. The noise is often comprised of a clickbait title with poor quality content. I would say that it suffers from the same issue that StackOverflow has, which is that it loses its effectiveness as the user b

The parent comment was discussing the quality of the content.

The authors claim that their users post high quality content but a brief browse found subjectively awful content. I didn't see a single interesting article.

Agreed, the quality of content on there isn't poor in itself but is aimed at getting low hanging fruit.

Completely agree! Quality is poor and content is often entry level, I only ever navigate to medium if it's a post on Hacker News.

When you say "had more quality content", do you mean that some content was removed ? Or that the rate over which great content is produced has decreased ?

I'm guessing because the content/comments are generally lower quality/effort.

This may also reflect the quality of the content...

This comment doesn't offer any practical advice on where to find content of higher quality, it just condescends people who don't feel like they have high quality options.