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^ this. It’s too easy to create your blog, and there isn’t much that you can bring to a writer besides a promise of an audience. I don’t think any of these prod
by baby 4y ago
^ this. It’s too easy to create your blog, and there isn’t much that you can bring to a writer besides a promise of an audience. I don’t think any of these products will ever win.
It’s also sort of uncool to write for these platforms, sort of how uncool wordpress was in its early days.
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- Thorentis 4y agoWriting for Substack isn't uncool. In fact if anything, it is extremely in vogue right now. But I agree with GP that eventually it will go the way of Medium, and a new "cooler" platform will take its place.
- baby 4y agoI don’t know any top blogger who used that platform, so I’m not sure I understand your comment.
- ifqwz 4y agoTop bloggers aren't stupid enough to put their blogs in someone else's platform.
- jokethrowaway 4y agoIt's never been cool. It's the professional equivalent of people writing on blogspot or wordpress.com A real company will have the resources to setup a blog on their own domain.
- blowski 4y agoAnd yet a lot of very wealthy people and companies wrote on Medium.
- baby 4y agoThe only reason is SEO
- post-it 4y agoThe thing with writing is that the smallest distraction can make you not want to write. Like, sure, I could go and set up a blog right now on my domain, but I'd have to find a blogging service (GitHub pages? I don't necessarily want to fiddle with markup though), log into my domain, potentially fiddle with HTTPS, and after all that I won't want to write my blog post anymore. And after I've written my blog post, I'm not going to fiddle with setting up my own blog because I don't have anything to write anymore. And next time I have something to write, I'm not going to want to fiddle with setting up a blog.
- baby 4y agoSure, that’s why I recommend everyone to just use wordpress
- post-it 4y agoIf I'm going to use a free Wordpress host (probably with ads), why not use Substack?
- johntash 4y agoIt's easier than ever to set up a blog. If you aren't interested in figuring out how to host your own, there are paid solutions like Ghost and Wordpress. You can always use one of those and migrate to a self-hosted one in the future if desired.
- Thorentis 4y ago> A real company Maybe I'm in a different bubble, but most of the writers I see on Substack are individuals, not people writing on behalf of companies. If anything, companies using Medium is still more popular. Substack is also quite popular in the literary and arts circles, not just tech.