Substack update

Dec 2, 2022

Patreon is by far the best place to get all the low down and behind the scenes stuff, occasional exclusive stories and so on, from me. But I’m planning to make Substack a bit more central to my online presence and thought you might like to know. Substack are setting themselves up as a pretty strong social media alternative. I originally signed up there to mainly use it for my email newsletter, as I really hate the Mailchimp interface. But they also offer a regular blogging option, so I might be using that sometimes too – the Blog here on my website is really just a place where I post news now, not articles. To be honest, I’ve really fallen out of the habit of “blogging” outside of Patreon, so this might trigger me to get back into it.

So, if I blog something a little more in-depth that isn’t an exclusive article for Patreon, I’ll be using Substack now, mainly because that also gives me the option to send that blog post as an email to my newsletter list.

And now, on top of that, Substack have added a chat function – which is a bit like a personalised social media feed for anyone to chat directly with a stack author. And that strikes me as quite useful too. I’m not sure how much it’ll get used, but it’ll be interesting to see, especially as other socmed (especially Twitter) is so unstable right now.

Of course, you might already be subscribed to my newsletter and all this is not news at all. Or you might be subscribed but didn’t know what else substack offers. But if you’re not, you might want to sign up. You’ll find it here:

https://alanbaxter.substack.com/

What do you think? Useful or not?

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