here you go. distributed means your story goes on the topics page. featured means it goes on the top scroll on each topic page. Go to the Outdoors topic page on medium (on ur app click search u automaticLly get the list of topics..outdoors is the last one) ..click on it..on top there is a horizontal scroll of featured stories. Your story is the 3rd one in it. I have over 100 stories curated so far but none featured so yes it is a big deal and congratulations..truly deserved ☺