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diff --git a/blog/site-update-no-more-revue.markdown b/blog/site-update-no-more-revue.markdown new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f105b6c --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/site-update-no-more-revue.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +--- +title: "Site Update: No More Revue" +date: 2022-12-15 +series: site-update +--- + +For a while in 2021, I regularly had a [newsletter on +Revue](https://www.getrevue.co/profile/theprincessxena) to put a lot of my +"seconds" or things that I wrote but don't feel really "fit" on this blog. It +seems that Revue is being [shut down](https://www.getrevue.co/app/offboard) as a +result of the Elon Musk owning Twitter fiasco so I'm going to act ahead of the +curve and shut it down now. + +I only had 7 subscribers to that newsletter and I never really put much effort +into shilling it or working on content for it. It being in a separate place that +I had to manually update without an API to automate things probably didn't help +either. + +If I make another newsletter in the future, I plan to do so on my own +infrastructure with my own code. I'm getting tired of setting up things on third +party services only for those things to just be shut down and abandoned by those +same third party services. + +I have copied my backlog on Revue into my notes and I plan to copy all of the +content onto my blog backdated to the original publication dates on Revue. + +The data export that I got from Revue includes the email addresses of those 7 +subscribers. My plan is to back up that archive and never use those email +addresses. If I create a new subscription of some kind, those 7 users will need +to resubscribe to the new subscription. I do not want to spam people. I believe +in "calm technology" where people should choose if they want to engage or not. + +Thank you all for bearing with me as I experiment with new and exciting ways to +offer the things I write to the public. I'm a bit sad that this experiment +didn't work out, but I learned a lot from it and I am going to take those +lessons with me towards the future of this blog. |