While on research leave for the next two years, I hope to revive www.publiclawforeveryone.com, which I have somewhat neglected recently, while busy with other things. Would be interested in views of those who have tried Substack: is it a better platform than a traditional blog?
by Professor Mark Elliott
I find substack good for blogs and podcasts, and there's a wide range of people on it. Very simple to use.
I'll add that to my feed reader (and blogroll)
I look forward to reading via whatever platform you choose. I would say that there’s quite a lot of unhappiness with the owner of Substack’s toleration of racist right wingers using that tool. An alternative platform is ghost.org
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Do you want the opinions of readers or just writers?
I realise this isn't an answer to your question, but ICOI a couple of years ago I asked readers of my blog if they thought I should migrate it to Substack & of the approx 400 responses, about 50% said they didn't mind either way and about 40% said stay on the existing platform (which is what I did).
As a general point of view, I prefer non-Substack blogs - as long as they have a working RSS feed.