I wish there were still a way to search articles by date. I'd like to know when certain authors started writing on Medium and how their contents might have changed over time.

One thing I'm struck by, if you don't mind my saying, is your low follower count, given how long you've been on the platform (unless you deleted an old account and recently started a new one). Just a couple of days ago I lost 500 followers that were presumably bots, and I checked other writers and they too lost a lot. So there was recently a purge, although I suspect that the majority of remaining followers still read hardly anything. In any case, although the follower count is misleading, we could almost infer how the "following" function works, given your oddly low count. It must have to do with where, how, and how often articles are being published.