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by gk1 2426 days ago
> This is the closest I got to subscribing to a newsletter.

Almost got you, huh? :)

I've A/B tested various locations and the inline-embed is the best, by far. This is also why many news sites now include related stories in the middle of the article, not at the end.
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mey 2426 days ago
Wish the rss/atom was better represented, rather than only existing in metadata on your site. I must be a dying breed, but I refuse to sign up for email newsletters. I refuse to hand over that much of my attention.

Edit: https://www.gkogan.co/feed.xml

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alexis_fr 2426 days ago
That’s interesting. So RSS didn’t stick because it didn’t allow advertisers to harvest email addresses.

Which is stupid because you still can’t reach to your audience if you just buy harvested addresses, so if it’s just people who subscribed to your newsletter, you’re just better off letting them subscribe to your RSS. Perhaps the quantifiability of newsletters vs RSS makes email win. If only RSS had embedded ways to count views and see what users looked at.

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