Almost all the blogs in the world seem to have switched to Substack, so I’m wondering if I’m the only one whose browser is very slow in loading and displaying comments from Substack blogs. Or is this a firefox problem?
No, it’s not just you, and it’s not just Firefox. Substack comments really are hideously slow to load. (That’s one of the reasons why they don’t all load at once—which really only makes them worse, UX-wise.)
Yes. Substack has Stripe billing built in, and a user base which both accepts monetization culturally and is probably already subscribed to another substack so it’s much easier to subscribe to a second.
Getting new updates via email matters a lot of user retention. Sending emails in bulk to get around spam filters is nothing that WordPress can easily do out of the box.
Almost all the blogs in the world seem to have switched to Substack, so I’m wondering if I’m the only one whose browser is very slow in loading and displaying comments from Substack blogs. Or is this a firefox problem?
No, it’s not just you, and it’s not just Firefox. Substack comments really are hideously slow to load. (That’s one of the reasons why they don’t all load at once—which really only makes them worse, UX-wise.)
I don’t really understand why Substack became so popular, compared to eg WordPress. Is Substack writing easier to monetize?
Yes. Substack has Stripe billing built in, and a user base which both accepts monetization culturally and is probably already subscribed to another substack so it’s much easier to subscribe to a second.
Getting new updates via email matters a lot of user retention. Sending emails in bulk to get around spam filters is nothing that WordPress can easily do out of the box.