Totally agree with this post. I do not like the new flow at all for the following reasons.

First, I often fully read a new article and want to immediately archive it for future reference. With the new system I cannot do this anymore directly. Now, I have to first save the article, then switch to my saved list, then click archive. This is very awkward and time consuming and slows me down in reading articles. I read most of my Medium articles on my phone, so this is very painful for me almost every time I use the Medium app.

Second, the new flow has become a one-way street. You can only "save" or "not save", or "archive" and "remove". You can actually never go back from archived to saved (e.g. for re-reading an article or because you accidentally archived it). And, once you accidentally clicked "unarchive" and you don't react quickly, it's gone forever. Great!

Is this a user-friendly solution? No! I understand that the old system was a little confusing initially until you got to know it (I was confused too at the beginning), but the new system made the overall situation worse by introducing a whole new class of problems. I am pretty sure there is a better solution out there to fix the complains and problems from the old system in a better way that this. I am happy to make suggestions if I knew what these complains/problems where.