Actual feed readers are much better suited for the task of reading blog posts-but for most people, the alternative to using their email inbox isn't to set up a real feed reader, it's to mostly not read blogs at all!įor those of us who do use RSS, Substack has us covered as well. It is unfortunately true that an email inbox makes for a rather shoddy feed reader. On the other hand, Substack makes the bet that with a slight shift of frame, calling them "newsletters" not "blogs", you can trick people into converting their email inboxes into something very much resembling a feed reader! Perhaps setting up an actual feed reader is too much of an inconvenience, but people are already used to treating their email inboxes in more or less this way-a pile of entries, each marked read or unread, which you go through one by one and read, skip, or otherwise deal with each. But what you're going to get from that is at best a handful of converts, not widespread adoption. Feed readers are in fact pretty great, and you may well convince a handful of people to give them a try. Perhaps you would go out into the world and evangelize about the benefits of RSS. If you were to set out to solve this problem and bring the benefits of RSS to the masses, there are several ways you could go about it. But plenty of people don't, and they're missing out. Perhaps you, like me, have an RSS reader stocked with the feeds of all your favorite blogs from across the blogosphere. But RSS never really got the widespread adoption it deserves. In truth, Substack is a nothing more and nothing less than a blogging platform-the next generation after blogspot and medium and the like.įar and away the best technology for reading blogs is RSS 1.
Calling what Substack does "newsletters" is a very clever marketing gimmick.
0 kommentar(er)
