At the Upfront Summit last month, @ev mentioned they were working on a mobile-centric storytelling format. This feels similar to Hardbound by @nbashaw and Twitter Moments. Looking forward to playing with it.

I automatically thought this was called 'Stories'

Introducing Snapchat Stories, by Medium.

Thanks Snapchat, for showing other companies their potential.

Flipboardy.

I've been on the beta of this for a little while now and have found it an interesting addition. It kind of comes off as an insta/snap "story" but on medium. Would be curious where the initial inspiration came from. In general the series have been much less formal and more fun. I believe they should be used for an always evolving/building thought piece - Kind of a like a less emotional tweet storm. Where you subscribe to a series and get notified as more words come in. But the use cases aren't forced... so I've seen a lot. I haven't seen a really standout content piece on it, yet. So I'm looking forward to watching this as it gets used... But I can definitely see people telling more Wattpad like stories on Medium in the future.

hey all - thanks for the interest and hope you get a chance to play around with Series! holler if u have any q's :)

Medium Stories*

Stories stories everywhere !

This is more like a Hardbound competitor

Cool!

Side note - Instagram stories should copy the parallax from Medium Series' images. It would be a clever product solution to solve IG stories frustrating vertical crop that gets applied camera roll uploads.

I've been on the fence about this for awhile: is tapping beneficial to storytelling? The phone is 'the medium' we are 'stuck' with. And Series has exciting potential to cater to the phone's innate benefits and limitations. I've been in the beta program for a couple months. When I created my first Series, "NewsFeed Game Theory," I was unsure if I used Series 'correctly' as I wrote a pseudo-serious academic style post https://medium.com/series/newsfe... but in making it, I found that that the creator is increasingly drawn to the break from screen to screen, i.e. like a line break, but more controlling in the sense that nothing of what's next can be seen. The next screen could be an ad... Immersion in Series - and SnapChat stories for that matter - just face so many challenges the book never did. The break from screen to screen shapes the story. Anyways, from a marketing perspective (as you have to use the app to access the screens), Series is going to do wonders for driving the Medium app's usage.

I'm already a fan! As a huge Medium user this kind of fits the niche I've felt existed for a while! You can read my first series on my Medium profile! https://medium.com/@TristanIsham

Medium Stories is big for a writer like me. I write a series about becoming an entrepreneur. I basically write about my journey to riches, so I appreciate being able to make it a series instead of having to edit every story all the time. For those of you who are curious, here's my series: https://medium.com/ghilia-weldes...

I've started mine, it's called "Occasional Stories from a Computer Science Student", and you can probably guess what it's going to contain. I've already filled in one entry, and I'm sure you will go through a range of emotions as you read it. https://medium.com/series/occasi...

While we hate to have more competition, I have to give credit when it's due. Congrats and well done Medium. 👏 The functionality, concept, and implementation is similar to our product Storyline; however, with a focus on writing. I do see some similarities in our design though. 🤔

Instagram, Whatsapp, Vkontakte, Facebook and now Medium. Everybody wants his own Snapchat inside. Right before the Snapchat's IPO.

i love it. would also love to see a wordpress plugin that mimics this functionality

Coolest tech improvement launch of the year so far.