Thank you so much for doing this. I enjoy reading your newsletters and am grateful that I can do so for free. This allows me to make donations to Birds Canada, CPAWS, and the Wild Bird Care Center. We have to do what we can, but it's also nice to be able to read about what others are doing. I guess it makes sense that SubStack wants paid subscribers, but once the system is in place, what difference does it make to them? I suppose there's the cost of running the servers?
Probably nothing will come of it and my Substack will roll along for years, but I have read several posts in recent months by people more plugged in than am I to Substack politics that make me a bit twitchy. Opening an alternative just seemed to be worthwhile and as a mega storm full of freezing rain is heading this way I thought this would be a good time to knuckle down ... that, and I like to fiddle with things. This new site is totally under my control and I have several design tools there that Substack do not provide.
Thank you so much for doing this. I enjoy reading your newsletters and am grateful that I can do so for free. This allows me to make donations to Birds Canada, CPAWS, and the Wild Bird Care Center. We have to do what we can, but it's also nice to be able to read about what others are doing. I guess it makes sense that SubStack wants paid subscribers, but once the system is in place, what difference does it make to them? I suppose there's the cost of running the servers?
Probably nothing will come of it and my Substack will roll along for years, but I have read several posts in recent months by people more plugged in than am I to Substack politics that make me a bit twitchy. Opening an alternative just seemed to be worthwhile and as a mega storm full of freezing rain is heading this way I thought this would be a good time to knuckle down ... that, and I like to fiddle with things. This new site is totally under my control and I have several design tools there that Substack do not provide.