My guess is that a lot of us here on HN probably use a feed reader (I use Feedly). But that's because we're outliers with a technical persuassion. Most people d

My guess is that a lot of us here on HN probably use a feed reader (I use Feedly). But that's because we're outliers with a technical persuassion. Most people don't have the first idea about rss, but _everyone_ uses email. I'd suggest there are 2 advantages to starting a newsletter: 1. You can plug your rss feed into the newsletter and broadcast your new articles via email for those who don't use rss. 2. You can email other updates, news, surveys etc that you don't publish on-site. Email also opens up the discussion because your subscribers can respond any time. It's like the original social network.