I’m seeing low views this morning, but I haven’t published in 3 days either. It really is a “what have you done for me lately” environment. So that being said, I can’t attribute the low reads to anything that is going on with Medium.
I did however click to follow somebody who followed me last night, and it couldn’t find the page of one of the people consistently. The other people worked just fine. Weird that somebody would follow me and then delete their account within hours.
I’ll try again later to see if they were having the error or the account really did disappear.
If you don’t mind me saying, you may want to up your followers. If you aren’t publishing in publications or gaining new followers, any new stories you publish are going to show to only a percentage of the people following you. I say percentage, because they would need to go their homepage for your story to appear in the “In your network” area. Even then, since stories rotate in that area, you may appear for a few minutes to any of your followers and then be hours before it rotates in again.
Your work is good, it should be flaunted!