Haha ok I think you win about the fleeces, to be fair from now until April I’ll be wearing mine every day so perhaps I should give them more credit 😄
It was a shame I had to move the newsletter to Substack, I preferred running it off my site too, to have everything in one place. But running a paid newsletter is more complicated than it seems because I had to have a system for the newsletter, a system for the membership subscription and another one for payments. In the end the linking of those was too difficult and Substack offers the lot in one and more security. Hopefully you can remain logged in, giving you access to the archive - that element is the same as on my site. The one thing I don’t like about Substack is that the minimum annual price I’m allowed to set is £20, I thought £10 -15 made it more accessible to people. But I’ve increased my effort to match that.
Thanks for getting in touch about it - that is actually a real email, although the default text is awful! It's because I had to move the newsletter across from one platform to this new one. I could move the emails but not the subscription info, so unfortunately it means signing up again on here. Though you should have access to the newsletter on here until some point early next year. You should receive another email in 2023 telling you that your paid for subscription has expired on here.
Thanks for supporting the newsletter and still wanting to read it! :)
Haha ok I think you win about the fleeces, to be fair from now until April I’ll be wearing mine every day so perhaps I should give them more credit 😄
It was a shame I had to move the newsletter to Substack, I preferred running it off my site too, to have everything in one place. But running a paid newsletter is more complicated than it seems because I had to have a system for the newsletter, a system for the membership subscription and another one for payments. In the end the linking of those was too difficult and Substack offers the lot in one and more security. Hopefully you can remain logged in, giving you access to the archive - that element is the same as on my site. The one thing I don’t like about Substack is that the minimum annual price I’m allowed to set is £20, I thought £10 -15 made it more accessible to people. But I’ve increased my effort to match that.
Thanks for asking about it all.
Jack
Hi Ian,
Thanks for getting in touch about it - that is actually a real email, although the default text is awful! It's because I had to move the newsletter across from one platform to this new one. I could move the emails but not the subscription info, so unfortunately it means signing up again on here. Though you should have access to the newsletter on here until some point early next year. You should receive another email in 2023 telling you that your paid for subscription has expired on here.
Thanks for supporting the newsletter and still wanting to read it! :)
Jack