Founder here. Sorry about this everyone. We're monitoring a fix now
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#15Lol, I could host all of substack as static html pages on a $20/mo linode instance. Embarrassing.
Doubt you could do that in a way where you'd attract users at the level of Substack.
Umm maybe it’s the fact substack is outright paying for traffic and lying about it? It’s just their own paid influencers who use it.
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Doubt you could do that in a way where you'd attract users at the level of Substack.
Umm maybe it’s the fact substack is outright paying for traffic and lying about it? It’s just their own paid influencers who use it.
Where are they lying about it? They openly admit to paying writers. And no, it's not "just" their influencers using it.
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#17it's a shame substack continues to get more and more visually bloated. I remember when it first launched, thinking the site looked really clean and simple. i figured it was only a matter of time before the simplicity went away, and it became more like Medium.com (in a bad way). it seems like there is a very predictable model for how a site like this devolves:
- it starts ultra clean, posts have a title and body, maybe (reluctantly) a share link appears somewhere on the page .
- then "modern" looking custom web fonts are added, making elements on the page flicker/move around when the page opens.
- then the entire site adds a sticky header that animates as you scroll up and down.
- then the site is rewritten using some client-side rendering framework that requires javascript to run 'correctly'.
- then a popup modal is added to every single page asking you to subscribe or sign in.
(substack is currently here)
- then "reading time indicators" (e.g. "5 min read") are added to the top of every story
- then "related" stories are inter-spliced throughout the text of the story.
- then it becomes hard or impossible to even find the actual content of the story, as the entire site is engulfed in "related" content
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#18it's a shame substack continues to get more and more visually bloated. I remember when it first launched, thinking the site looked really clean and simple. i figured it was only a matter of time before the simplicity went away, and it became more like Medium.com (in a bad way). it seems like there is a very predictable model for how a site like this devolves: - it starts ultra clean, posts have a title and body, mayb…
hey those product managers gotta earn their equally bloated compensation packages.
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#20it's a shame substack continues to get more and more visually bloated. I remember when it first launched, thinking the site looked really clean and simple. i figured it was only a matter of time before the simplicity went away, and it became more like Medium.com (in a bad way). it seems like there is a very predictable model for how a site like this devolves: - it starts ultra clean, posts have a title and body, mayb…
hey those product managers gotta earn their equally bloated compensation packages.
PM here, and though I've only worked on delivering one web app, I was forced to follow this model because "we have a UX designer for a reason".
At some point the future vision of the UI was getting so unnecessarily bloated, our UX genius independently came up with Clippy, but if he were a fox...
Luckily we were sold and I got a new job because I knew I was gonna lose that fight