Hi all!
For ages now, I’ve been planning to move to a different platform for myriad reasons.
In the next month-ish, I’m making the leap and need your feedback about what would better serve you:
Option 1: I move to another dedicated newsletter service (Buttondown), move all your paid and free subscriptions, etc. You don’t need to do anything, paid subscribers will be billed the same amount, and will continue receiving newsletters as usual.
Option 2: I go old school and move my newsletter back on to my own Wordpress site. All subscriptions will be moved over, and paid converted to free subscriptions: And you can resubscribe as a paid subscriber for $3/month ($2/month less than here).
Essentially, the convenience of being automatically rerouted to a new platform, vs. cost saving (for paid subscribers), but which requires you to hit ‘resubscribe’ and re-enter your details.
I’ll let you know which I pick, and either way it’ll be a light lift from you.
If you also have a newsletter I’m happy to go into detail about the benefits/drawbacks of each of these options, why I’m moving primary posting over to another platform, etc. at some point.
I’ll still be here cross-posting content to Notes, so you’ll still see me on this platform, the only difference is the emails themselves will generate from a different service.
Thanks as always for subscribing!
Julia, I'm one of the people who would really like to hear your thinking about moving. I understand that SS is changing. And I feel that change already. I'd love to know more about your motivation.
This is extremely interesting, thank you. I’ll follow your site wherever you choose, but am curious about what’s going on with Substack. My family has an organic farm just north of Minneapolis. Right now, Substack is our best source of news, a lot of it routed via Canada. Local news didn’t report that 20k+ people were peacefully collected yesterday in one park near the killing in Minneapolis last Wednesday, but Substack, (and people we know there), had that information. Substack, however, is getting flooded with crap. Let’s say someone wants to read your writing - goes to Roots - but can only find literally dozens of very long pieces supposedly commented to you or reposted by you, and cannot find the genuine bits you’ve written. How is that happening? Are bots flooding the pro-democracy sites and Substack has lost control? Or are people just piggy-backing on sites that are widely read en masse? Either way, it feels as if Substack isn’t handing the load well.