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Re:Substack writers, you need a website by boplicity on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @03:27PM (#49088730)
Email is so well designed, so resilient, and so ubiquitous that's very hard to displace it's use as a central check-in.
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Re:Substack writers, you need a website by cosmicgadget on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @04:21PM (#49089411)
Right which is why I'd only suggest the browser as an alternative. Imho a browser is something I open when I proactively am seeking information/entertainment and thereby fits blog reading better than email which is more like an interrupt.
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Re:Substack writers, you need a website by boplicity on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @02:22PM (#49101115)
Maybe the default "new tab" view for a browser could be an RSS reader? Is that something along the lines of what you're proposing?
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Re:Substack writers, you need a website by wyclif on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @06:55AM (#49095782)
I want very badly to use RSS to read everything, and I still use RSS a lot. But I have to admit that email won the resiliency battle a long time ago.
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