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Still no custom domains, so you don’t really own your audience or your content on Substack.
by captn3m0 6y ago
Still no custom domains, so you don’t really own your audience or your content on Substack.
- fxtentacle 6y agoEven if you had your own domain, their ToS would prohibit you from collecting email addresses of "your" audience. Because in their lawyer's opinion, it's not yours.
- maguay 6y agoSubstack’s docs show an option to export email addresses—I would presume that would mean you could move your subscriber list to another email platform if you wanted to?
- maguay 6y agoFollowup here: I double-checked with some others who publish with Substack, and [you can export your Substack subscribers](https://capiche.com/q/what-did-you-use-to-start-a-paid-newsletter#a6403 https://capiche.com/q/what-did-you-use-to-start-a-paid-newsl...). At least that keeps the lockdown a bit lower (though of course you would have to get subscribers to pay again at a new site, which would likely lead to high levels of churn).
- michaelbrooks 6y agoIf you want your own custom domain with membership features, then Ghost is probably your best bet. It has built-in member features, open-source and can also be hosted on their Pro platform. They also don't take a cut from your memberships.
- captn3m0 6y agoLots of different solutions to this (I use Mailgun and/or Migadu for various usecases). Just surprised that such a hyped product gets to be this popular without support custom domains. Haven't we learned anything from Medium?