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Why do you think Substack is investing into RSS? Seems like a weird move for a company focused on newsletters.
by pier25 6y ago
Why do you think Substack is investing into RSS?
Seems like a weird move for a company focused on newsletters.
- SllX 6y agoThey’re adding features for their customers. I mean I have exactly one Substack subscription, but the fact that I pay $100/year for it makes me rather firmly invested in getting some value out of it, so I actually do read the emails that come in, but some parts of the publication I prefer to read in NetNewsWire instead like the fact checking portions. I could see why they would want Substack readers subscribed to multiple publications to have one place outside their inbox to get more value. Some people don’t actually like the email newsletter format and words are words wherever they are.
- signal11 6y agoNewsletters are always at risk of being flagged as spam, or not delivered (eg the recent Gmail outage). Meaning their email delivery has to be perfect or their subscribers miss out. An RSS reader makes perfect sense for them, actually.