I had been on roller coaster ride in writing here, not because I do not like writing. I love writing since I was in junior school. When I started I had only 4 followers and yes, they read me. 2 stopped writing already. I felt sad. They were genuine readers as I can tell from their way of engaging with me in their comments. That also inspired me to engage with them and read their articles, I would say their articles were superb! Awesome. But time passed by when suddenly we needed 100 followers by Dec last year, which I did not understand was it because if I had below 100 I would not be able to use medium. I was confused between Medium subscriptions and Medium Partner Program. I think many people panicked. So it was follow to follow game. I saw people suddenly following but lack of readers. One day I used publications too and there seemed more communications and engagement. but now it died down slowly too. I believed because there are too many writers, we have not found a way to read everyone we followed. It is sad. I tried to self publish again to test the algorithms. Sad to say, I don't see readers that much. I know how you felt. Keep writing. There will be regular readers one day. Soon.