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I like this service and use it myself. But I do find one thing unsettling about it: I run a blog that offers email subscriptions, but also provide direct RSS fe
by dynm 2y ago
I like this service and use it myself. But I do find one thing unsettling about it: I run a blog that offers email subscriptions, but also provide direct RSS feeds (with prominent links!). For reasons I don't understand, large numbers of people subscribe using kill-the-newsletter. Which makes me sad, because then they don't get real tables, can't see post-publication corrections, don't get vector graphics, etc.
- ajdude 2y agoMake a blog post about it
- BiteCode_dev 2y agoI still don't get how my substack newsletter got such a success but the RSS got so little love. It's less clutter. No string attached. Formatting is better. And yet.
- threecheese 2y agoIgnorance? I sub to several substacks via email, and just today (just now, from you) learned that the platform supports RSS feeds :) Off to substack I go! It’s become overwhelming.
- BiteCode_dev 2y agoYeah RSS is the least promoted web feature of the century. Even youtube channels have rss, and it's advertised... nowhere.
- jcrawfordor 2y agoI see the same thing! A little tempted to email them sometimes with "you know there's a real RSS feed..." I don't feel like I present the email option with any more prominence either. Interesting user behavior.
- manuelmoreale 2y agoAhah same. I literally just posted another comment here saying the same. I even made a PSA on my blog to let them know and people keep doing it. I really don’t get it. If you want an RSS just use that. But i guess people are used to not have an RSS available so they don’t even bother checking.
- kevincox 2y agoI run a paid RSS-to-Email service and I have customers who subscribe to get kill-the-newsletter RSS feeds delivered to them via email. At some point I just have to assume that people have motives and not worry about it. (In the case of newsletters → feed → email it may be avoiding giving our your email address?)
- yegle 2y agoPeriodically send out a newsletter targeting kill-the-newsletter email addresses to announce the "new" RSS feed support.
- yunesj 2y agoI check for an RSS feed, and if it does not exist, subscribe via KTN. It would be awesome if KTN provided an easy way to upgrade/redirect at KTN feed to an original feed, if one exists. I'm not sure how conveniently redirects would be handled by RSS clients...