Wow! To my knowledge, nobody experienced issues with accessing the friend link, but I rarely give them out.

There appear to be glitches that none of us are even aware of. Some may not be affected, while some of us may be affected.

I only realized disappearing claps because it happened in real time, so it made me aware of the possibility of this happening to other stories just to discover some indeed disappeared, so I try to take screenshots of anything I seem unsure of just in case I need to contact Medium.