Hi King, Yes your story remains in the pub. You'll see it in their archive. There is an archive hack for every publication on Medium: https://medium.com/online-writing-101/how-to-hack-mediums-biggest-publications-and-gain-access-to-the-most-valuable-data-e21e43fe48eb

There was an independant pub called Coffee Times. This pub wanned banned from Medium. In this case, they removed the whole publication. My story still exists BUT as a sel-fpublished post.