Nice! Yeah, it’s a cool little town!

Substack has its own traffic, so just in terms of diversification maybe it’s worth accepting the limitations?

(That’s a question more for me than you at this point—you’ve got me rethinking our approach again!)

Yeah, segmentation is something else that’s missing. It’s closer to blogging with a paywall and RSS to email than a true list management platform.

Autoresponders have been a great list builder for us, but otoh that will go down as Google shifts to AI and we lose traffic.

Also Substack has discovery features built in, which is a way to further build your list.
And it’s free.

If it added autoresponders or workflows, I think I’d switch.

We switched to Flodesk from Mailchimp as we have an autoresponder series that we want to keep.

If you want to do any sort of automated email workflows, Substack doesn’t work unfortunately.

For paid newsletters, though, not sure it can be beat at this point. We’re still considering it for that.

The only dowinse is they're a little bulky to wear as is, so I've ordered the lavalier extensions for them as well.

Support 32 bit float too, which should help resolve clipping issues when Erin screams at me for getting the name of a place wrong for the 19th take in a row.

Ha yeah it’s the one major downside of English hikes!