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Substack is a paid newsletter site that WeWrite aims to compete against. Its success is admirable in that some prominent journalists have taken a liking to it so that they can circumvent the censorious likes of Medium and the clunky annoyance of running your own website.

Comparison with WeWrite

WeWrite is a wiki. That means users can submit edits to your pages if they want.
A Substack article is a Post. This perversely enslaves the writer to the content treadmill. WeWrite instead seeks to liberate you from the treadmill, allowing you to create a constellation of ideas; a knowledge garden.
On WeWrite, each page is its own independent donation target. Whereas on Substack, the whole newsletter is the donation target. This allows authors to experiment with new ideas, seeing which ones take off, without risking their other revenue streams.
On Substack, each edit is sent to users' emails: this is the nature of Substack being a "newsletter" product instead of a "wiki" product, whereas on WeWrite we'll let users see the growth and change of a page over time, without cluttering up your inbox.
Articles on Substack have a "like" button … this is a Vanity Metric, which WeWrite rejects

Disgusting, isn't it?

Kudos to Substack

Their "Pledges" feature is getting close to being the right thing[1] But WeWrite's Donation Bar is better, if I may say so.

References

↑ Responding to Substack's new "Pledges" Feature by WeWrite on Substack

Comparison with WeWrite

WeWrite is a wiki. That means users can submit edits to your pages if they want.
A Substack article is a Post. This perversely enslaves the writer to the content treadmill. WeWrite instead seeks to liberate you from the treadmill, allowing you to create a constellation of ideas; a knowledge garden.
On WeWrite, each page is its own independent donation target. Whereas on Substack, the whole newsletter is the donation target. This allows authors to experiment with new ideas, seeing which ones take off, without risking their other revenue streams.
On Substack, each edit is sent to users' emails: this is the nature of Substack being a "newsletter" product instead of a "wiki" product, whereas on WeWrite we'll let users see the growth and change of a page over time, without cluttering up your inbox.
Articles on Substack have a "like" button … this is a Vanity Metric, which WeWrite rejects

Disgusting, isn't it?

Kudos to Substack

Their "Pledges" feature is getting close to being the right thing[1] But WeWrite's Donation Bar is better, if I may say so.

References

↑ Responding to Substack's new "Pledges" Feature by WeWrite on Substack

Comparison with WeWrite

WeWrite is a wiki. That means users can submit edits to your pages if they want.
A Substack article is a Post. This perversely enslaves the writer to the content treadmill. WeWrite instead seeks to liberate you from the treadmill, allowing you to create a constellation of ideas; a knowledge garden.
On WeWrite, each page is its own independent donation target. Whereas on Substack, the whole newsletter is the donation target. This allows authors to experiment with new ideas, seeing which ones take off, without risking their other revenue streams.
On Substack, each edit is sent to users' emails: this is the nature of Substack being a "newsletter" product instead of a "wiki" product, whereas on WeWrite we'll let users see the growth and change of a page over time, without cluttering up your inbox.
Articles on Substack have a "like" button … this is a Vanity Metric, which WeWrite rejects

Disgusting, isn't it?

Kudos to Substack

Their "Pledges" feature is getting close to being the right thing[1] But WeWrite's Donation Bar is better, if I may say so.

References

↑ Responding to Substack's new "Pledges" Feature by WeWrite on Substack

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