Taking advice of people on Medium these days is a fools game. Sure, some of the articles are a fun read but most of them are written by folk who haven't a clue what they're talking about or they are regurgitating shit they heard elsewhere.
I seen one headline recently 'How to Make It Big on Medium' from a guy with 300 followers haha. Fuck off mate.
P.S - How did you make your story page show a dark background? Every time I try to change my story background colour nothing seems to work.