I’m particularly not sure I understand the concern that people might switch to other platforms with completely different audiences and feature sets.
Substack’s value is that it is a place to sell subscriptions to content, not that it has particularly innovative or well-designed features. It seems that if writers wished to make money from their content they would switch to Substack regardless of the quality of EA forum software, whereas if their priority was engaging with EAs, there would be little incentive to switch to a service with a different audience and a monetisation-focused ethos even if its editing tools were top notch
Substack’s value (or a blog + newsletter mailchimp/listmonk/buttondown/etc.) is also that the writer owns the mailing list, and so it’s easy to disintermediate the platform.
I’m particularly not sure I understand the concern that people might switch to other platforms with completely different audiences and feature sets.
Substack’s value is that it is a place to sell subscriptions to content, not that it has particularly innovative or well-designed features. It seems that if writers wished to make money from their content they would switch to Substack regardless of the quality of EA forum software, whereas if their priority was engaging with EAs, there would be little incentive to switch to a service with a different audience and a monetisation-focused ethos even if its editing tools were top notch
Substack’s value (or a blog + newsletter mailchimp/listmonk/buttondown/etc.) is also that the writer owns the mailing list, and so it’s easy to disintermediate the platform.