We strongly recommend that your blog has some form of RSS/newsletter. This makes it easier for people to find and read (and much easier for us to judge).
At the same time, I love and generally encourage the idea of building a website around the content along the lines you describe, for the reasons you enumerate. This is the big downside of Substack.
It sounds like you’re interested both in the quality of the content and in its convenience, visibility, and readership. But it doesn’t necessarily need to have the journal-like structure of a blog. The RSS/newsletter would be a way to keep regular readers apprised of new content. But it doesn’t necessarily have to be primarily meant to be ingested in chronological (or reverse-chronological) order.
We strongly recommend that your blog has some form of RSS/newsletter. This makes it easier for people to find and read (and much easier for us to judge).
At the same time, I love and generally encourage the idea of building a website around the content along the lines you describe, for the reasons you enumerate. This is the big downside of Substack.
Thanks very much for the response!
It sounds like you’re interested both in the quality of the content and in its convenience, visibility, and readership. But it doesn’t necessarily need to have the journal-like structure of a blog. The RSS/newsletter would be a way to keep regular readers apprised of new content. But it doesn’t necessarily have to be primarily meant to be ingested in chronological (or reverse-chronological) order.