5 things about the new Claps feature on Medium

Medium replaces Recommends with Claps. Here is all you need to know.

Note: There were initially 6 things, and the title read so. I have since discovered that #5 was inaccurate, so have added a correction there and modified the title of the story accordingly. Did not delete my initial point however. That would have been cheating.

I haven’t been active on Medium for almost 2 weeks now. But I received a notification today that made me come check it out.

Clapped?? Huh?

Here are few things that you need to know about the new feature:

#1. THIS. THIS AIN’T NEW

The stories in Series always had the clapping option

For those of you who may not have been aware of it, the ‘clapping’ isn’t new on Medium. It’s just that it was present exclusively for Medium Series so far. Now, they have gone ahead and replaced the all too familiar recommend heart with the clap icon.

#2. SHOW YOUR LOVE FOR THE STORY