![]() That isn’t mandatory, and partly due to recent events I’m not expecting to use it.) (Substack also has a system for paid subscribers. ![]() Like WordPress, they have a system where people can follow the blog through a Substack account, and the impression I get is that a lot of people use it, browsing topics they find interesting. The whole site is built around the idea that posts are emailed to subscribers, with a simplified layout that makes that feasible and consistent. Substack is a (increasingly popular) blogging platform, focused on email newsletters. Last year, someone reached out to me from, trying to recruit me to switch to their site. The problem is that they don’t seem to handle images in a sensible way: I can scale an image to fit in a blog post, but in the email the image is always full-size, sometimes taking up the entire screen. Recently, I’ve gotten a bit annoyed with the emails WordPress sends out. (Are there other options? If someone’s figured out how to follow with an RSS feed, or wants me to change something so they can do that, let me know in the comments!) ![]() Others follow on social media: on Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr. (I use that tab to keep up with a few of the blogs in my Blogroll.) 258 of you instead get a weekly email: this is a service offers, letting people sign up by email to the blog. ![]() 333 of you are other users of : WordPress has a “Reader” tab that lets users follow other blogs through the site. Now, the blog is more popular, and you guys access it in a wide variety of ways. (Since then I started paying them money, both to remove ads and to get a custom domain, .) When I started the blog, I picked WordPress mostly just because it was easy and free. This blog is currently hosted on a site called. ![]()
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