Most of mine were distributed, but there is some confusion about how much human curation was even happening, Tony Stubblebine implied it was mostly a.i. a couple of places I have seen, but he didn't answer my question (he replied to a comment of mine on a Jessica Widlfire article) about what will happen to the "featured across the site/emails" etc email you would sometimes get if you were lucky, which seemingly was human driven. I know they still have the "what we are reading" on the homepage but not sure if it's the same thing. I agree the removal of the notification has been demotivating though, and my articles are defintiely getting less view for it no matter what they say.