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Discoverability is a huge challenge... I've considered moving to Substack because of their discovery mechanisms, but I don't like incurring the platform risk ha
by hackitup7 4y ago
Discoverability is a huge challenge... I've considered moving to Substack because of their discovery mechanisms, but I don't like incurring the platform risk having seen the way that applications like Medium have changed over time. Curious if anyone in the HN community has any ideas on that conundrum.
- ravagat 4y agoYour blog is really nice! Information like yours is great to see more of. In regards to discoverability[1] I shared a rule you may find useful, why is it a huge challenge? Are you aiming to monetize? [1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34553528 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34553528
- gonzo41 4y agoIf you can script this for yourself, write your post, push to your platform and auto publish to substack, or vice versa.
- hackitup7 4y agoYeah we're definitely able to do those things, it just seems weird to have the content living in two places and I'm not sure if that will present some sort of other issue for us down the line.
- ripe 4y agoI copy my blog text to Substack and use the platform as a push mechanism. I hear your concern and am open to suggestions.
- hackitup7 4y agoYeah, I'm always worried about the fact that Substack won't let you set up canonical URLs back to your blog, but we aren't really SEO optimized anyway so maybe it doesn't matter that much...
- FlyingSnake 4y agoJust checked out your blog, pretty cool stuff. Thanks for sharing.