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The irony... that you're reading some brutally simplified, crude, static, easily-archived HTML text whose fulltext copy has also been mailed out to thousands of
by gwern 5y ago
The irony... that you're reading some brutally simplified, crude, static, easily-archived HTML text whose fulltext copy has also been mailed out to thousands of readers[1] and archived in their personal mail readers and computers? A lot of bad things one could, and I have, said about Substack's technology, but "it will linkrot and can't be archived" is not one of them.
[1] ACX is #2 on the Technology Substack leaderboard so it has 'thousands'; since my own newsletter is ~6k and Scott is many times more popular than I am in our circles, I'd guess the number of email copies of this ACX post is closer to 50k than 1k.
- Zababa 5y agoYou made me check the HTML of substack, and you're right, once you find the "article" tag it is precisely this, the article. In addition to everything you said, making a substack scrapper to extract precisely the article would be trivial.