To goal is to make you write more. Tonnes of features, including posting by email (my favourite way to blog).
I love blogging and I want more people to go back to writing on their own blog and reduce time on the socials. It seems to be striking a chord with people.
Free classic plan, bargain premium plan at only $29/year.
I've yet to upgrade from Sequoia and having read this _excellent_ article, I'm going to hold off as long as Apple let me.
I really hope the recent changes at Apple mean this will get completely overhauled and they'll return to their roots as design leaders. It will be such a shame if this mess is allowed to continue
Honestly this is so true. I have a few blogs for various reasons, and the hosted ones are where I post most because it’s so effortless to do. There’s so much less inertia. You can go even further and post by email (I use Pagecord) which removes virtually all barriers to posting.
That said, building your own static site and faffing with all the tech is generally an enjoyable distraction for most techies
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This is pertinent. I’ll get hundreds of page views a day on a blog post and if that’s syndicated to X it’ll get 55 views, never to be seen again despite having 1200 followers.
Focus on publishing your own work. Syndicate if it’s effortless, otherwise don’t worry about it.
Great to see this here. I’ve been using EchoFeed (https://echofeed.app) to syndicate articles from my blog to social media (it uses RSS as the feed source). I also recently learned about POSSEparty (https://posseparty.com) which has more options but is self hosted.
RSS most certainly isn’t dead either. I run pagecord.com (indie blogging app) and the majority of traffic is from a huge variety of feed readers.
Thank you. I'm quite tired to see people insisting that the web is dead or is dying while it clearly is not since there's a lot of great content out there. But it is getting harder and harder to come by, that's for sure an issue.
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