Today, with hundreds of long-term subscribers, we’re putting a new coat of paint on this option, and renaming it Write.as Memberships, to reflect what you get with a 5-year Pro subscription: extra perks, and a lasting spot among a community of writers in our cozy little corner of the independent web.

Write.as users can check out the revamped Membership section (previously called “Long Subscriptions”) today.

This page under the Billing section includes everything about your Membership, including the extra perks you get over the monthly or yearly Pro plan, to be sure you’re enjoying them all.

Renewal

With this, we’re also introducing the ability to easily renew your 5-year membership, starting any time up to 1½ years before it’s set to end.

Since renewal is always a manual process, we wanted to leave a wide window so you can be sure your Pro features don’t lapse. This should also help anyone who wants the chance to get a discount on membership when we run occasional sales, like we’re doing now through February 16, 2026, celebrating our 11 years on the web. When you choose to renew, any existing membership is simply extended by another five years from its end date, no matter when you decide to renew.

Current and past 5-year subscribers will find this new option to renew at the bottom of their Membership page. If you’re eligible to renew, there will be a Renew button — otherwise, you’ll see the date when your renewal window opens up.

Reminders

Since membership doesn’t automatically renew, we’ll soon send out reminder emails to all current and past 5-year members (who haven’t already marked their membership as “cancelled”) to remind them that they can now renew their membership.

Future perks

Besides Membership-only perks like additional blogs, unlimited Free user invites, and the chance to hop on a call with our founder, Matt, we hope to add new perks that are exclusive to Members in the future. You can keep an eye out for that by following along with our updates here, and subscribing to email updates.

Otherwise, we’d love to hear what you think! Feel free to leave us a comment on Remark.as (Discuss...) or on the forum. And always, thanks for writing with us!

To celebrate, for the next two weeks ending February 16th, we're having a sale on our long-term, 5-year Pro plan, and iOS app. You can read all about it on our Write.as Deals newsletter.

In the beginning

When we launched Write.as in 2015, the internet was quite a different place. Our founder, Matt, saw some of the issues of the time, and wanted to build a product that directly addressed them, with digital privacy at the forefront.

At the time, the world was still hearing news of mass surveillance by intelligence agencies around the world, combined with what we already knew about the dominant tech business model that has since only continued to metastasize, summed up in a then-new term called “[surveillance capitalism](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstractid=2594754)_.”

On top of that, we recognized the cycle that cheap, free-flowing venture capital perpetuated, as helpful products sprouted up with all cash and no business model, only to go away once the money ran out. Over and over, people would connect and create on these new apps and platforms, only to see them close down without much notice.

We wanted to do things differently: encouraging free expression by protecting privacy, and building with an eye toward the next decade, not the next funding round.

How far we’ve come

Now 11 years later, we’ve grown to host over 600,000 users and 6.6 million posts. We’ve helped non-bloggers start blogging, and writers find new community and readers to share their work with.

We’ve released our source code, so anyone can host their own individual blog or entire writing community, where they have choice and control over their data and how the app runs. We were one of the first platforms to bring long-form writing to the modern open social web (the “fediverse” as powered by ActivityPub), and have since grown with it over the years. There are now hundreds of independent blogs and communities running on WriteFreely across the web!

In the years since launching, we’ve also inspired similar minimalist blogging platforms and anonymous publishing tools. And we’ve stuck to our original principles — that we would always remain ad- and tracking-free; that we would be funded by our customers, not venture capital; and that we would continue building the open web.

Looking ahead

So what’s next? As always, we’ll continue carefully maintaining the platform and tending to everyone publishing on Write.as. We’ll continue developing WriteFreely, so you’ll never be locked in with us, and can host your data where you please.

We’ll also continue developing new features where they make sense. Some are planned that will help more people interact with your blogs from across the open web, and we have plenty of small quality-of-life fixes we hope to get out soon.

As always, we’re honored to be the platform of choice for so many writers around the world, and to be trusted with your words. If you haven’t subscribed to our 5-year Pro plan yet, be sure to do that while our sale is going on. Otherwise, we’re proud to be a success story for building sustainable, open and long-term products for the web, and we look forward to doing it for many, many more years to come!

As always, thank you so much for writing with us.

#anniversary

In late 2021, we announced that we were closing free registrations for new users. This was mostly an experiment to help us focus on the paying customers that keep our small business running, and provide a better experience all around.

Since then, we’ve been able to launch our social platform Remark.as, continue evolving WriteFreely, and add a ton of features around collaboration.

In this time, we’ve also realized that free accounts are one of the best ways for people to get started on our platform. While some people know what they’re looking for, and happily upgrade to our full Pro tier within the 2-week trial period, others just need a place to casually write when they feel like it. This takes a longer time, and doesn’t fit our time-based trial model, so we want to support these writers too.

Another goal of closing free accounts was to limit the number of spam accounts on Write.as. As a long-running platform with plenty of positive search engine authority on our domain, we’re a prime target for Search Engine Optimizers and spammers of every kind. Closing free accounts reduced the number of abusive actors we saw, but never stopped them completely.

Now that free accounts are open again, we plan to develop new anti-spam measures that can eventually be used by all WriteFreely instances to reduce the amount of abuse they receive.

New and existing users

Now, anyone can grab a Free Write.as account, and get a permanent space to write online — you can get started here. Our Free tier includes all the basics, including Markdown support, our Fediverse integration, and even support for monetization through services like sub.club. See our Pricing page for the full comparison with our other tiers.

Along with this, if you signed up for a trial between January 1, 2022 and today but never upgraded to Pro, your account is now completely free! This is our way of saying thanks for sticking around — and if you haven’t revisited Write.as in a while, now is a great time to check it out again.

Thanks for writing with us, and we can’t wait to see what you create!

#free #Writeas #accounts #fediverse

Update: we've removed support for sub.club after it shut down in December 2024.

Today we’re excited to announce a collaboration with sub.club, a brand new platform to help writers sustainably publish on the fediverse! With our new integration, you can offer your most loyal readers a paid subscription, and publish exclusive blog posts that they can subscribe to from their favorite platform.

Since 2018, Write.as has been part of the fediverse, an open social network that enables people to create, share, and socialize seamlessly across a variety of services. Along with WriteFreely, the open source software behind our platform, we’ve helped bring long-form content to the millions of people on this network.

Now with sub.club, your biggest fans can help fund your writing, and read exclusive posts made just for them conveniently in their social web feed. Sub.club’s Anuj Ahooja (@quillmatiq@mastodon.social) shows how our new integration works here:

Getting Started

Connecting your Write.as blog to sub.club is easy, and works seamlessly to keep your posts in sync across platforms.

To get started on sub.club, you’ll first need an account in the fediverse (for example, on a platform like Mastodon). If you’re already a Write.as Pro subscriber, you can grab a free account on our writing-focused community, Writing Exchange — see your Blogs page for more information.

Next, you’ll create a sub.club account and connect it to Stripe. This will allow you to set a subscription price, and start collecting payments from your subscribers.

With that out of the way, you’re ready to connect your sub.club account to Write.as!

Connecting sub.club

Go to your sub.club dashboard and scroll to find the Post via API section. Click the copy button next to where you see API key.

Now on Write.as, go to your blog’s Customize page, and scroll to the Monetization section. Paste your API key into the “sub.club” section, and save your changes.

Note: For full capabilities, be sure to also enable Federation on this page, if you haven’t already.

Now you can start monetizing your posts!

Premium Posts

Write.as makes it easy to choose which posts are free or exclusive to your sub.club subscribers. To publish a paid post, you’ll insert this special shortcode into your posts where you want the paid content to begin:

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Once published, this will hide content beyond this marker, and create a link that prompts readers to continue reading on sub.club. Once there, they can also subscribe to future premium posts, if they haven’t already.

Over on the fediverse, your Write.as blog posts will show all content up to the “paid” section, with your full post directly embedded. Thanks to sub.club’s close integration with the fediverse, existing subscribers will be able to read the full post right their in their social feed! And for anyone who hasn’t subscribed yet, they’ll be able to head over to sub.club and subscribe using their fediverse account.

Here is an example of what your Write.as post will look, depending on which client you’re using:

What’s Next

As more people use this new integration on Write.as, we’ll continue refining it and improving the experience for readers and writers alike. As you try this out, please send us your feedback on our forum or in the fediverse by replying to @write_as@writing.exchange!

Beyond that, we’ll bring this feature to WriteFreely, so even more people can publish premium blog posts across the open social web. We can’t wait to see what everyone creates!

#integrations #subclub #fediverse #ActivityPub #WriteFreely

We first joined the Fediverse in 2018, as one of only two long-form publishing platforms implementing the ActivityPub protocol (the other being Plume). Even then, we knew the promise this new protocol held for the open web. We had already joined Mastodon and even started our own instance, Writing Exchange. So by the time we implemented it ourselves, we already knew this was finally a modern protocol that could turn the internet itself, with its billions of independent sites, into a social network.

Soon after, we took Write.as open source, and called it WriteFreely. It’s since been used around the world by hundreds of thousands of people and organizations outside of our single, centralized service on Write.as. And we’ve continued to support and evolve on the Fediverse ever since.

Today, we’re proud to be one of many launch partners with the newly-formed Social Web Foundation. Started by Evan Prodromou (@evan@cosocial.ca), Mallory Knodel (@ohmallory@socialwebfoundation.org), and Tom Coates (@tomcoates@me.dm), its mission is to educate people on the fediverse, enhance the ActivityPub protocol, make it easier to use, and inform policy-makers about issues on the social web.

As a long-time developer on the Fediverse, our goals perfectly align with the Foundation’s — and its work will be invaluable toward fully realizing the dream of a truly open and vibrant social web.

Among some of its first projects, the Social Web Foundation will convene implementers like Write.as, Ghost, WordPress, and others to work out issues with long-form content and the Article type in the Fediverse. With this work, we hope to see more consistent presentation of long-form content, and solid cross-platform compatibility as platforms like Ghost join the fediverse.

We hope our financial support and continuing collaboration with the Social Web Foundation will help the Fediverse grow into the social web we’ve always dreamed of — one where everyone can control who they interact with and how, and do it free from the whims of the centralized social media platforms of yesteryear.

You can follow the Social Web Foundation in the Fediverse at @swf@socialwebfoundation.org or @socialwebfdn@threads.net.

#fediverse #ActivityPub #SocialWebFoundation

While our high privacy standards remain unchanged, this new requirement will help us reduce abuse and provide a better experience for our writers and customers. Read on for more.

Your Privacy

First, we’ve always prided ourselves on the privacy we offer our users — from minimizing data collection to resisting unfounded user data requests from entities both public and private. With this new email requirement, none of that changes.

As you can see in our Privacy Policy, we still maintain our stringent data practices, never sharing your personal information with third parties for marketing or other reasons, and encrypting data like email addresses in transit and at rest.

Though we recommend all Write.as users add an email address to their account, this new requirement only affects people who haven’t signed up yet. Going forward, an email address is no longer optional — everyone will need to supply that and verify that they own it in order to start a Write.as blog.

Why Make This Change

There are two main motivations for this change: a botnet attack we endured last month, and the customer service workload we’ve seen increase over the years.

Over the course of July, we encountered a distributed attack on our service from bots creating Write.as accounts only to test out stolen credit card numbers. Thankfully, with our payment processor Stripe behind the scenes, we were able to prevent and block most fraudulent charges — but many still got through.

We’ve since refunded these fraudulent charges to their rightful owners, blocked the attacks, and put systems in place to prevent this in the future. Going forward, we remain vigilant for attacks like this, and will continue refining the automated protections we have in place.

In the coming weeks, new customers will see additional data requirements around payments — standard billing information you’d supply anywhere on the web — designed to further prevent these fraudulent attempts. This is critically needed, as this activity cost us time and extra revenue losses from both refunds and chargebacks (where we incur a much larger fee).

Customer Service

Otherwise, we’ve seen our customer service workload increase over the years due to accounts without an email address on them. While we’ve always encouraged users not to share this information with us if they don’t want to, we’ve now seen more issues than not from it.

Without an email address on your account, we’re unable to send payment receipts, upcoming renewal reminders, or password-reset emails. And if you ever lose access to your account due to a forgotten password (hey, it happens!), a human on the team has to do an extra level of sleuthing, while maintaining our security standards, just to restore your access to your work.

At this point, we’ve decided it’s more important that writers have their email address on their Write.as account than the minor privacy enhancement they might get from withholding it. While still not required, we strongly suggest that any current Write.as users add an email address to their account today, if they haven’t already.

We hope everyone will find this minor change reasonable, and as always, we thank you for continuing to trust us with your writing!

If you have any questions or concerns, we hope you’ll give your feedback on Remark.as (Discuss...) or by replying in the fediverse @write_as@writing.exchange.

#changes #email

While we would love to continue supporting this feature for all the writers who use it, ultimately we’re glad to cut ties with a platform that has become unreliable in many ways under its new ownership.

Twitter Changes

Since changing ownership in November, we’ve watched Twitter transform quickly and often whimsically. We trudged through new bugs and instability, and alerted others when they started censoring alternatives like Mastodon and Substack. We watched advertisers, news organizations, and everyday people flee to other social networks like the fediverse and Bluesky, as new conversations about decentralizing social media started.

Then in February, Twitter announced new pricing changes to their API:

Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API, both v2 and v1.1. A paid basic tier will be available instead 🧵

- @TwitterDev

With this announcement, in light of the platform’s unreliability, anti-competitive tactics, and disregard for its users and developers, we decided we’d remove our Twitter integration. In mid-May, Twitter finally revoked our access to their API, and today we’ve officially removed support from Write.as.

Going Forward

With this change, you’ll no longer be able to connect your Twitter account, or cross-post to any previously-connected account from Write.as. Instead, writers can still manually copy and paste any published post URL into a tweet.

We really try not to remove useful features from our platform, and we’re sorry for the inconvenience this causes. However, we’ll continue building our platform (and the software underneath, WriteFreely) toward our long-term mission of advancing the open web, outside of siloed social networks that are easily bought and sold.

As we have for years, we continue to believe that the future of writing, publishing, and socializing online is in small and interoperable communities. It’s why we added support for ActivityPub and the fediverse back in 2018, and continue supporting the ecosystem to this day.

If you’re looking for a new social space to rebuild and find your community, we’d highly encourage trying the fediverse. Readers there can directly follow your blog and interact with it — and soon, you’ll also be able to receive replies on your blog posts directly from the fediverse.

If you prefer Twitter-style microblogging, our Mastodon instance, Writing Exchange, remains open to Write.as Pro subscribers — even if your subscription ends. Just visit your Blogs page as a subscriber to learn more.

Following Us

Going forward, the best place to follow us is on the fediverse: @write_as@writing.exchange. We’ll continue sharing important updates and information there. We’re also on Bluesky for jokes and little announcements.

Otherwise, as of March, we stopped monitoring our Twitter account. It’ll remain online, but we won’t post any critical updates, so we don’t suggest following it anymore.

Have any thoughts? Let us know on Remark.as: Discuss...

#updates #Twitter #fediverse #ActivityPub

Getting here

The journey to where we are today has definitely been a wandering one. When I started building Write.as in 2015, I had a very simple idea in mind: I wanted to publish an essay on the web without signing up, and I wanted it to look nice. That was really it — I didn’t have “blogging” or “newsletters” in mind, just writing.

At that time, I also saw problems elsewhere on the web that I wanted to fix with this brand new tool. I had privacy on my mind — how writing your deepest thoughts can be so intimate, and how you can’t really be anonymous when every social platform stalks you just to show you ads. I knew that privacy and anonymity had to be the foundation for this new tool.

I was also thinking about all the places I’d hung out online since I was young, and how many of them had disappeared over the years — often sold off and shut down, or ignored for more profitable ventures. I knew again that the dominant business model, and the profit motive generally, had left the world with so many disposable digital spaces.

Yet these platforms have always been the cafés we gathered at online — the places that enable us to actually hang out on the web. But usually, we all get to use and enjoy them for a while, and then suddenly have to find a substitute when management changes, or the money dries up. I knew this concern would be existential for our young platform — if I ever turned it into a business, we had to either remain fully independent and customer-funded, or not operate at all.

Thankfully we’ve been able to reach sustainability — and keep it on our own terms.

Today

As mentioned in last year’s recap, we became profitable after six years online (and about five years in business). We’re still funded entirely by our customers — not outside investors or advertisers — and still run by the same person that first created this tool, platform, and space for your words (me, Matt).

This year brought some changes for us, as well as slow and steady growth. I took work a little easier while I settled into a new city, and re-established ourselves as Musing Studio. We closed new free accounts to make it easier for me to personally manage, and launched Remark.as, a social space built around your blog here.

In March, we felt a major shift after our entire platform was blocked in China, and then launched writeas.xyz (and the accompanying anti-censorship writeas.guide) so users there could continue writing and reading here without a VPN.

Now, we host over 460,000 blogs and 3.8 million posts — up from 360,000 blogs and 3 million posts last year. We see over 1 million page views every day across the platform. And outside of Write.as, tons of new, independently-run WriteFreely communities continue sprouting up.

The outlook

Today, as the grounds shift around us online, while companies are sadly scaling back and platforms like Twitter are selling themselves off to billionaires, I’m even more focused on building tools that help grow the ecosystems we’re a part of, like the fediverse and the open web more broadly.

I still stand by the ideals I set back in 2015 — that the world needs more sustainable, long-lived spaces where we can create and socialize online; that we need tools built on a foundation of privacy, instead of surveillance; that we should build protocols, not platforms, as @mmasnick@mastodon.social wrote about in 2019.

More than anything, I see this as a moment to expand our idea of what the “social web” means. It no longer has to be one platform owned by one person. It doesn’t have to be individual social networks that are isolated from each other. It can be personal blogs and sites of all stripes. It can be a space run by a company or your community. It can be motivated simply by human needs, instead of profit.

So looking ahead, I plan to spend our eighth year focusing more on WriteFreely, the open source software that powers Write.as. I want to make sure everyone can easily share their writing online, while also having a choice in who hosts that writing space. As one tool develops, the other will too — and I’m looking forward to seeing what kinds of new stories and connections it’ll enable.

To everyone who has contributed in some way over these last eight years, whether as an involved community member, a paying customer, or a quiet writer, I truly appreciate it. This project has managed to grow into something more useful than I ever could’ve imagined when I first started it. I’m thankful that all the support we’ve received over the years means I can keep doing it for many more to come.

Cheers!

Have any thoughts? Discuss... on Remark.as

#anniversary

A new company

At the beginning of the year, our founder Matt moved to his new home in New York City. Our small company naturally followed him there to make Brooklyn our new (apartment-based) headquarters. We’ve since re-incorporated as Musing Studio LLC in New York state, from our previously Florida-based LLC.

Going forward, you’ll start to see all our tools under this new banner, instead of revolving so much around Write.as. Gradually, your Write.as account and any subscriptions will become more of a Musing Studio account, to clarify that setting up shop here gives you easy access to all the integrated tools of our suite.

We think the new name more closely matches what we’re after: for us, a product studio making tools to help you publish on the open web, and for you, a creative studio for putting your work online.

Small improvements

In June, we ran a small survey asking what long-requested features people wanted to see most on the platform, and how everyone felt about our pricing. We hadn’t done this in a while, and the feedback was very helpful — so thank you to everyone who responded!

We’ll be using this input to prioritize development over the coming months, and you should expect to see some of those improvements soon.

Membership and discounts

As part of those improvements, we plan to offer new, affordable pricing options for Write.as. One of these will be a new set of discounts (for example, students and teachers), and an easier process for getting them. We know several people have been asking about these lately — you’ll be able to get them as soon as this new process is in place!

We also plan to launch a new paid membership tier soon. This will be a more flexible option for those who don’t need everything Write.as offers, similar to our Casual plan that was phased out in August 2019. This time, it’ll be priced on a sliding scale, where you can pay whatever you can afford. It will also give you access to some new community features, like Remark.as.

Better transparency

Over the years, we’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how we can operate as a small digital business. This is often difficult online — as users, we can’t always see the difference between a “big box” platform and a tiny one run from a Brooklyn apartment.

So this summer, we’re going to experiment with new ways to communicate this, and really settle into this identity as a “Main Street” online company. This might include operating more as an “open business,” where you can digitally see more of the things you would easily intuit if we were a physical store — how many customers we get, how busy we are, how active the place is, etc.

Besides helping you understand the kind of space you’re in here, we hope this might also give some useful insight to other entrepreneurs and operators of small digital services. As we mention on our Musing Studio site, we ultimately want to help more small businesses like ours grow on the web as alternatives to the giant platforms out there.

Relaxing a bit

Aside from these ongoing musings, we’ve been taking more personal time lately. The weather has been beautiful in New York, and the opportunity to meet new people in the city has been a welcome change. Matt has been taking the time to find new communities of creative people, and engage in some new artistic pursuits — writing, photography, and music.

To give a little space for this, and avoid burnout in general, we’ve paused major custom development projects for the summer, and worked to alleviate the support load a bit. For example, we’ll soon lift some of our anti-spam measures for users, especially as new abusive accounts have dropped significantly over the last few months.

Have a great summer!

This will probably be our one major post for the summer. To keep up with us, be sure to also follow our microblog on Write.as updates, plus our Twitter and Mastodon accounts.

Any thoughts or feedback to share? Let us know on Remark.as: Discuss...

In short, this will only affect people without any Write.as account at all — existing users will be able to continue using the platform at no charge, as long as they keep their original account. (And we won’t ever change this!) But anyone who hasn’t created an account by December 31 at 11:59pm Eastern won’t be able to create an account via our open registration flow. Instead, they’ll need to choose a paid account, or get a Free account through another channel. Read on for details.

Where we are today

Write.as will soon celebrate its seventh birthday, this February! When we started back in 2015, it was a completely free platform that didn’t even let you sign up — you could publish individual, anonymous posts and share the link.

You can still use Write.as like that to this day. But since then, we’ve also added full accounts and paid plans, grown almost entirely via word-of-mouth, and earlier this year, became profitable as a company, ensuring we can continue building this for decades to come.

Along the way, we launched complementing products like Snap.as and Submit.as. We released our publishing platform as free and open source software, called WriteFreely, so anyone could host their own “Write.as.” Besides the 325,000 writers we now serve, tens of thousands more write and publish on independently-run WriteFreely communities around the world.

Now, looking forward, we want to focus on making our ecosystem better for everyone in it. We want to put dedicated effort into building our product roadmap. And we want to continue helping our open source platform grow and develop. So, after discussing this with the community, we’ve decided that the best way to give ourselves space for this work will be to limit new Free registrations for the foreseeable future.

Improvements for subscribers

With this change, we’ll turn our focus entirely to improvements for our existing community. In the near term, this will include the ability to comment on posts, and more widely, a new social space called Remark.as — open soon, for Write.as subscribers.

We’ll also add some long-requested features, like custom favicons, more control over your site’s navigation bar, more accessible design, and control over your site’s layout.

From a marketing perspective, we’ll finally be able to freely talk about everything the platform can do, instead of always catering to the limitations of the Free plan. Our hope is that this will help us present things in a more coherent way, and put effort into calmly growing the business again in the coming year.

As we continue building around the customers that keep our bootstrapped business alive, we plan to offer new ways to pay for our products.

As we’ve written about before, we believe privacy-focused platforms like ours should be as widely accessible as possible. That means we’re happy to work with people on pricing, for example, if they can’t afford a subscription, or are in school, or are retired, or if they live somewhere that makes paying in US dollars difficult. When in doubt, just reach out to us and we’ll be happy to work something out.

Along these lines, we’ll also look to reduce our prices as our business continues to grow. We’ve already started on that in some places, for example by reducing the price on our WriteFreely iOS app.

Finally, subscribers can still rest easy knowing they’ll fall back to our limited Free plan if they stop paying for their subscription. This is our continued way of saying “thanks” for financially supporting us, for however long you do.

Options for Free users

If you’ve relied on our Free Write.as plan, you don’t have to worry — we aren’t putting any new restrictions in place. In fact, we’ll actually be loosening things up a bit, like our automated spam filters, since more of our users will be trusted.

For new users looking for a free or low-cost place to write, we still want to help. Besides discounts on our paid plans, we’re keeping certain options open here on Write.as, and helping everyone find alternatives otherwise.

Anonymous publishing

Staying true to our roots, we’ll continue supporting completely anonymous publishing. That means everyone can continue using the platform without ever signing up, and our anonymous Android app, iOS app, Linux desktop app, and command-line client will continue working as they always have.

Invites

We want to continue supporting the communities, writing groups, classrooms, and public libraries that rely on Write.as as a free writing tool. So we’re leaving our invite system open for the foreseeable future, to let you give others a completely free account on Write.as.

Current Free users in good standing will get a couple invites to send out by default — up to 3. For our paying Pro users, you’ll get:

• 5 invites as a monthly subscriber
• 10 invites as a yearly subscriber
• Unlimited invites as a 5-year subscriber

If you ever need more, especially for your writing group, students, or patrons, just reach out to us and we’ll be more than happy to help.

Self-managed and WriteFreely communities

Finally, you can enjoy the same clean publishing experience you get here, without relying on our paid service, through our open source platform, WriteFreely.

WriteFreely makes it easy to start up a website that works just like Write.as. You can host your own blog, or a whole group of friends. Organizations can set this up to give their members a completely private or public place to write.

Besides running the site yourself, you can also join WriteFreely communities that already exist, hosted by organizations and hobbyists that want to offer a place for people to write.

If you’re interested in helping our ecosystem grow, the WriteFreely project is also a great place to get involved. There are many ways to contribute, and all will help us continue to build a suite of clean, simple web publishing tools that are accessible to all.

Thoughts?

If you have any thoughts or questions about this change, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us via email or our forum.

As always, we want to make sure we’re hearing from everyone who has invested themselves in our platform. We couldn’t have gotten to this place without you, and we hope to share in this next stage with you.

Happy holidays, and we’ll see you in 2022!