I’m moving the breaking smart list to substack this week. There will be broken links galore, which I may or may not ever get around to fixing. Main immediate reason: substack is free while mailchimp is now costing me $90/mo.
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There is also future optionality for a thread of paid content. Like maybe a podcast or more researchy posts. But in general I decided to take the leap because it feels like content infrastructure is poised for a paradigm shift.
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Substack, static sites, paid content, encrypted messaging, slack are on the right side. Mailchimp, wordpress, ad-supported or affiliate-links supported content, public media, are on the wrong side. Lot of affection for stuff in the second bucket, but not a lot of hope.
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Going a level deeper, headless CMSes, AWS lambda, nex-gen pubsub mechanisms (descended from RSS) are on the right side of history. Basic search (ie Google), heavy private backends, anonymous discovery, are on the wrong side. The web is going underground.
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One sign I take seriously: surface web tech is increasingly getting anti-text. It is getting *heavily* optimized for images. Aka packaging. The wordpresss ecosystem should be called imagepress now. Text must now flow in subterranean rivers.
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When I started in 2007, most Wordpress themes were text oriented and it was a Wild West. Now a couple of big theme frameworks dominate. Genesis, the top one, features many excellent image-first themes. The theme I use, appropriately called “Prose”, isn’t supported anymore.
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Ironic huh? “Word”press no longer supports “prose”. The drift towards packaging I think reflects the rise of Instagram in particular. Presaged by Pinterest winning out over bookmarking sites. You’re either pretty in public, or prosey in pipes.
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'Ironic huh? “Word”press no longer supports “prose”.' Yes! I went through this, too, looking for a nicer theme for my text-heavy blog. There was *nothing*, and I stuck with the old, generic theme I've been using since forever.
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I use Prose on Genesis, which is a nice premium theme that's great for text. It's no longer actively supported, but I plan to use it till some update breaks it.
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