[jklm]

Interestingly enough, Substack is heading down the same direction - when you get linked to an article, it now forces a full screen popup on you asking if you want to subscribe or just read.

[drc500free]

Somehow I find that less annoying with substack, because their positioning is clearly "look, this is a newsletter, not a blog." The dark UI patterns around dismissing the pop up are annoying though.

[wkat4242]

Yeah that's the problem. I don't want a newsletter, I want a blog.

And like the OP I only care about people reading my stuff. I don't care about monetisation and I definitely don't want to put them through all the crap that medium does.. substack is not a great alternative because it's also monetisation focused for authors.

[SQueeeeeL]

None of the incentives changed. We really just need someone egalitarian to make the craigslist of blogs and never be tempted to stab the goose who's laying the golden eggs for quick monetization. The blogging space is too long-term for that short sighted nonsense

[Permit]

> never be tempted to stab the goose who's laying the golden eggs

Isn’t the whole point that there are no golden eggs? People don’t want to pay and people don’t want ads. Where would you get income for the authors and for the platform itself?

[candiddevmike]

This would be a good service for the Wikimedia Foundation to provide, IMO.

[neodymiumphish]

What's wrong with GitHub spaces?

[ren_engineer]

companies have to make money at some point, it's not coincidence all these same types of sites do the same thing once they've burned through their VC money and have to make money. Hosting this type of stuff is a commodity service, it's why you constantly see a churn of people from each VC subsidized service

[simonsarris]

As an author, you can turn this off in the settings

[subarctic]

It's done that as long as I can remember - the "let me read it first" thing, right? Or did they change something recently?

[SanjayMehta]

Substack has RSS feeds.