I'm as confused as you are, Roz, and we're not alone! I wish I knew what to do about all of this but I'm not sure the subscriptions are going to work, either. As someone else said here, you can only get so many emails from Medium writers before it gets overloaded and none of them are read.
We're madly trying to work around Medium's rules, with no relief in sight, never knowing when everything will change again. I keep hoping someone in the top office might figure out ways to make it easier instead of harder.
Unless the whole idea is to make it harder. I honestly don't know.