I'm thinking about moving wmtc to Substack.
Wmtc has been on Blogger since July of 2004, starting out life as wemovetocanada.blogspot.com, then wmtc.blogspot.com, and finally wmtc.ca. I briefly tried to move to WordPress, but was horrified by their ad policy.
Now I'm starting to feel like Blogger is a dinosaur, or dinosaur-ish. (I will not say "dinosaur adjacent"!) I've never chased the latest thing, and I don't mind being old-school if it suits my purposes. But I like Substack and the newsletter-based model.
I like many things about Substack.
- It's easy to subscribe by email.
- No ads!!!!
- I like the look and feel.
- It gathers all the channels in one place. Even though I wouldn't be using most of them, I still like the idea of a creator being able to host their writing, their podcast, the chat, and any other channels, within one well-designed, uncluttered format.
- It offers creators a decent deal that they can control. Of course I have no intention of ever charging a fee for wmtc! But I like the idea of using a platform that supports writing, rather than ads.
Meanwhile, I've had a whole series of issues and frustrations with Blogger's backup function not working. Maybe it's time for a new look.
Naturally any subscription to a wmtc substack would always be free.
11 comments:
Happy to follow wherever you go, though I don't know much about substack. When I was working on the Biden campaign in PA in 2020, one organization used it to communicate, and I found it totally baffling. But this is different.
As for WordPress, I pay for the premium for my blog, which has no ads.
Substack seems like an odd choice for a campaign -- as opposed to Slack or Discord or Signal that is built specifically for something like that.
WordPress -- at the time (a long time ago), the paid version was downloadable software that could only be used on one device, which doesn't work my needs. The free version had ads that the creator never saw, had no control over, and earned no revenue from. It may be totally different now.
Well, of course, it was Slack! Substack rhymes with Slack and thus...brain fart. And today the premium version of Word Press is web-based and ad free. I subscribe to a number of WordPress blogs these days and never see ads on any of them. I guess everyone has upgraded to premium.
I'm considering the same move. It's not so much dinosaurishness rising as it is the creakiness of the platform. That includes the back-up issue as well as the periodic difficulty with embedding images and the need to go into the source code when making some template changes.
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Interesting, thanks RossK.
Sounds like a plan. Would you have a social media account (bluesky or Threads, not Twitter/X) to post a link to your latest subtract post?
I'm really off social media entirely now (something I will write more about). So anyone who is interested should subscribe by email. That's the beauty of Substack (at least to me) -- it's an email subscription.
Laura, before you move over to Substack, will you post on wmtc instructions for those of us who want to subscribe over there?
Of course! There will be a post directing readers. Similar to this that Allan posted on his non-baseball blog: I've Moved
Thanks!
Also I will migrate the email list from the 3rd party company that sends the emails now to Substack. Blogger ended their "subscribe by email" function, which has caused me tons of problems. Using Substack would fix that.
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