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Phantom Observer's avatar

Now that's amazing guys. Love the site too, but keep failing to connect at times.

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Alejandro Piad Morffis's avatar

Yeah the server is a hobby instance, we have to upgrade it.

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Alejandro Piad Morffis's avatar

And also optimize some things like caching page results, since most of the time they won't change

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Phantom Observer's avatar

look at polygon for hosting. Interesting ways to monetise website visits in the new decentralised instances in web3

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Andrew Smith's avatar

Thank you guys for putting another issue together! Let's keep lifting up good authors, supporting the community, and growing together. I really appreciate the inclusion and opportunity to be a part of this.

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Alejandro Piad Morffis's avatar

Thanks for your kind words

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Abhinav Upadhyay's avatar

Thank you for the shout out. The idea was Alejandro's, and i hope the larger substack community takes advantage of it.

Also, congratulations for crossing 150 subscribers!

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Alejandro Piad Morffis's avatar

Idea is 10%, execution is 90% :)

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Michael Woudenberg's avatar

What's the implication of having a custom domain on shadowbanning? I recently switch from polymathicbeing.substack.com to just www.polymathicbeing.com. I've upgraded my links file to the open.techwriters as well to test this on things like LinkedIn as well

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Alejandro Piad Morffis's avatar

Apparently the shadow banning is just for substack dot com subdomains, i.e., the easiest implementation. That's judging from the fact that links for other domains at least render meta previews, but without some objective analytics we really can't say.

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Gold Bassey Edem's avatar

☄️☄️

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Jared Smith's avatar

That Substack social link workaround is genius, cheers fellas!

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Alejandro Piad Morffis's avatar

Have you used it?

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