For example, Substack is a bigger deal now than a few years ago, and if the Forum becomes a much worse platform for authors by comparison, losing strong writers to Substack is a risk to the Forum community.
I’ve proposed to the LW folks and I’ll propose to y’all: make it easy to import/xpost Substack posts into EA Forum! RIght now a lot of my writing goes from Notion draft ⇒ our Substack ⇒ LW/EAF, and getting the formatting exactly right (esp around images, spacing, and footnotes) is a pain. I would love the ability to just drop in our Substack link and have that automatically, correctly, import the article into these places.
Nice! I think LW has a work-in-progress branch with this sort of thing, though I have no idea if/when they will wrap it up. We also have an admin-facing feature where we can set up a process to automatically import posts to your Forum account from an RSS feed (although it’s rarely used so it’s probably buggy).
My recommendation is actually to let our team assistant manually crosspost your pieces to your Forum account. She does this for Lewis Bollard’s Substack, for example. For now, I expect she will do a better job than any of the automated options.
If anyone would like us to handle crossposting their external blog to the Forum, please let us know! You can contact us in various ways, or just DM me directly.
I’ve proposed to the LW folks and I’ll propose to y’all: make it easy to import/xpost Substack posts into EA Forum! RIght now a lot of my writing goes from Notion draft ⇒ our Substack ⇒ LW/EAF, and getting the formatting exactly right (esp around images, spacing, and footnotes) is a pain. I would love the ability to just drop in our Substack link and have that automatically, correctly, import the article into these places.
Nice! I think LW has a work-in-progress branch with this sort of thing, though I have no idea if/when they will wrap it up. We also have an admin-facing feature where we can set up a process to automatically import posts to your Forum account from an RSS feed (although it’s rarely used so it’s probably buggy).
My recommendation is actually to let our team assistant manually crosspost your pieces to your Forum account. She does this for Lewis Bollard’s Substack, for example. For now, I expect she will do a better job than any of the automated options.
If anyone would like us to handle crossposting their external blog to the Forum, please let us know! You can contact us in various ways, or just DM me directly.
Thanks, we’ll definitely consider that option for future pieces!