Hi Robin, I added an answer to the post about sharing which publications. It's, No, for two reasons. The first is that it's the job of these curators to find you. The second is that listing them now has a tendency to stick when we expect it to shortly be many or most publications.

Re: suffering. The way we look at it is that boost-worthy stories have been suffering and we are fixing that. But I think the answer you are looking for is more along the lines of "it's complicated." There are already hits that cross 100k views and this probably just changes which ones hit those heights.