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Substack does this too, though. In fact I feel like it's incredibly similar to medium in many ways. Why has substack "won" this market? Or has it really? Is it
by JeremyNT 4y ago
Substack does this too, though. In fact I feel like it's incredibly similar to medium in many ways.
Why has substack "won" this market? Or has it really? Is it just due to the newsletter publishing tools and subsidising some big name bloggers?
- Macha 4y agoSubstack didn't start doing this until it had pulled significant share from Medium. I suspect it will hurt substack long term too. In a way this feels like the cycle of image hosts. Everyone moves to the new user friendly one, that one enshittifies the site to make more money, cycle repeats.
- rchaud 4y ago> Why has substack "won" this market? Medium "won" this market a few years back as well. The reason it sucks now is because investors aren't paying them to make the internet reading experience nice. And in any case, readers aren't willing to pay a subscription fee for 'nice'. Substack is now the leader because investors haven't pressured them to turn more newsletters into paid products. They will, they just haven't now. And just like Medium, the really good writers will have enough capital to run their own newsletters, and use Substack only for SEO. Sound familiar? Soon, we'll begin to see "name.substack.com" with the same kind of suspicion that we now see "medium.com".
- ploum 4y agoI already do.
- michaelcampbell 4y agoYeah, I want to "not", but sadly it's going that way for me as well.
- KingOfCoders 4y agoI have a newsletter for CTOs, and I try hard not to link to Substack any more, the number of my readers seem to automatically lock the article behind a pay wall - Substack is lost I think as a website (don't know about the newsletter aspect). I have some disdain to link to Medium but it's not as bad.