If you are a legacy site that wants to be serious about subscriptions, the first step is getting off #WordPress.
You aren't going to be successful running a subscription site using an architecture built out of a bunch of Lincoln logs.
If you are a legacy site that wants to be serious about subscriptions, the first step is getting off #WordPress.
You aren't going to be successful running a subscription site using an architecture built out of a bunch of Lincoln logs.
@aftermath.site launched its new site today on @ghost.org and @outpost.pub
They are lovely people who run a worker-owned site, which just turned two!
We're thrilled to get to work with them as a member publisher, and we love the new theme built for them by the good folks at @brightthemes
One year two thing I'd like to do at @theflytrapmedia.com is upgrade our @outpost.pub tier so we can start offering institutional and group subscriptions. Not saying 'it sure would be nice if we got enough new subscribers to justify the expense' except for how I am :)
The student newspaper.
This fell. To the student. Newspaper.
It would be nothing, like NOTHING, for a handful of lefty donors to fund a pipeline for truly leftist media that could rival the fascist apparatus and give hundreds of fact-oriented journalists jobs and set up dozens, maybe hundreds, of local news outfits, fully staffed, for 5+ years or more
Here's this week's Better Offline. I'm joined by @molly.wiki to talk about how RSS can purify your news experience, the challenge of the newsletter economy, and what gives her optimism for the future.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
linktr.ee/betteroffline
Why @thexylom.com will never use Substack (and Twitter). It does not reflect our values as the only Asian American-run science news outlet.
We've loved @buttondown.com and we're also moving our CMS from Wix to @ghost.org @outpostcoop.bsky.social.
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