[ChrisArchitect]

Related/unrelated:

anyone notice the seemingly big uptick in Substack submissions around here? Like ones reaching the front page, often submitted by newer-ish accounts. What's that about? Did (1) alot of bloggers switch to Substack recently? and (2) is there a concerted effort to take advantage of HN traffic bumps here?

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[theshrike79]

You can monetise on Substack. Same with Youtube.

Anyone can create a blog host or a video hosting site.

Being able to pay creators who post on said platform is the key issue.

[tombert]

I think it's just that it's the cool place to write blog posts now. It was similar five or six years ago with Medium, or Github Pages. I don't think conspiratorial thinking is really necessary.

[vunderba]

Funny how quickly the worm turned on Medium due to the constant nagging and paywalling. It's looked down on in the same way as linking to a Quora article at this point.

[tombert]

Yeah, I don't remember the last time a Medium article trended on HN. I suspect Substack will have a similar fate eventually, for the same reasons.

I was self-hosting my blog on my own server until very recently, but I moved to Cloudflare Pages and thus far I find it to be the least-awful platform I've used for it. Cloudflare might eventually turn out to be evil, but at least since I have my own domain name and it's just a static site, it's trivial to move to a different provider or even just host again myself if necessary.

I really would like to figure out a good way to syndicate though; there's really no discoverability with the current iteration.