I want to talk about my move from Substack to Ghost for a second, and what it's been like working with a nonprofit tech company that actually lives its values. Especially if you're a writer still on Subtack, please read. 1/x First of all, about the org: They are a nonprofit, I just met employee +
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Welp, people have been on me to start up a website to help promote my books. Based on what you've said and the stuff I've looked at on their site, this looks like the spot for me. Many thanks and much appreciation for sharing this!
I did the first step to sign up, but I have to pay for service after first 14 days ?!
That looks really cool. Do they also email the newsletters to your list?
Per a separate thread, I'm almost done transitioning to Ghost. Moving subscribers and articles was very easy. They even change the relative links somehow. Things are still a bit messy but I'm getting there. I went ahead and created a domain using Cloudflare, so it's speedy, too:
Hi! Since I saw you responding to another mail-related reply, it looks like something’s off with the syntax of your welcome so it’s not populating the name. (AT least as of March 1)
Thank you for sharing this!
Question: is there a way to just be a user on ghost rather than an author? One of the nice things about substack is being able to find new authors there. There's doesn't appear to be a way to just be a consumer with an account and subscribe to multiple authors.
I really wish I had a scale that made this work, it seems delightful