[nickthegreek]

> What if I want people to read me without needing a subscription or email disclosure?

Medium is where you can post and get a bit of what substack offers while giving you the ability to make your post freely available via the web.

> What's the email for anyway? So that you can get sent notifications of new posts?

On substack, you get the whole newsletter in the email. you dont need to go to a website. I use https://kill-the-newsletter.com/ to put them in my rss though.

[skippyfish]

> I use https://kill-the-newsletter.com/ to put them in my rss though.

Every Substack has an RSS at /feed.rss.

[hungryhobbit]

Pick Medium, it's great ... if you want a paywall to turn away half your visitors!

[nickthegreek]

The author has the option to enable that or not.

[hungryhobbit]

And (judging by the number of Medium articles I've been turned away from) 95% of all authors leave it on.

[nickthegreek]

Sure, but my comment was being given directly to a user who asked for a platform that allowed X, Y and Z. I was providing them with an answer that met their stated criteria. I don’t see how other people’s configuration is of any concern.