Speculative followup: seeing a few other people say similar things here and contrasting it with what seems to have been implied in the retrospective itself makes me guess there’s a seriousness split between LW and email “subscribers”. Does the former have passersby dominating the reader set (especially since it’ll be presented to people who are on LW for some other reason), whereas anyone who cares more deeply and specifically will primarily consume the newsletter by email?
Oh, I think there are a lot of email subscribers who skim/passively consume the newsletter. I didn’t focus very much on them in the retrospective because I don’t think I’m adding that much value to them.
It might be true that all of the people who read it thoroughly are subscribed by email, I’m not sure. It’s hard to tell because I expect skimmers far outnumber thorough readers, so seeing a few skimmers via the comments is not strong evidence that there aren’t thorough readers.
Speculative followup: seeing a few other people say similar things here and contrasting it with what seems to have been implied in the retrospective itself makes me guess there’s a seriousness split between LW and email “subscribers”. Does the former have passersby dominating the reader set (especially since it’ll be presented to people who are on LW for some other reason), whereas anyone who cares more deeply and specifically will primarily consume the newsletter by email?
Oh, I think there are a lot of email subscribers who skim/passively consume the newsletter. I didn’t focus very much on them in the retrospective because I don’t think I’m adding that much value to them.
It might be true that all of the people who read it thoroughly are subscribed by email, I’m not sure. It’s hard to tell because I expect skimmers far outnumber thorough readers, so seeing a few skimmers via the comments is not strong evidence that there aren’t thorough readers.