Goodbye Substack - the hows and whys of it all

As of today, the Always Be Watching daily newsletter is being hosted at the open source newsletter Ghost. For the past 2+ years I was sending it through Substack.

Substack gave me an easy-to-set-up platform to launch a newsletter. It also handled payment from my supporters (via Stripe). And it had constant uptime. Substack is a robust, reliable service. …