I wished all these newletters were just blogs
@janl @tante I'm intrigued, but it doesn't seem to work if email confirmation is required. Tried signing up to this one, for example, and I see nothing. https://theweekendwoodworker.com/newsletter/
Notes From the Shop - My Monthly Woodworking Newsletter

Receive handpicked woodworking goodness right into your inbox on the first Friday of every month - completely for free.

@nocalla @tante a good data point, thanks!
@janl @tante I actually got this feed working by plugging the feed URL into the feed validator over here - https://validator.w3.org/feed/ - and finding the confirmation link therein. I'm finding some newsletters that don't accept the email as valid though, which is a shame.
W3C Feed Validation Service, for Atom and RSS

@janl @tante I guess the workaround is to have a real email address that has a forwarding rule to the kill-the-newsletter address...bit of a rabbit hole!
@tante it's like they don't k ow RSS still exists
@matunos @tante I've started assuming that they have RSS and getting really grumpy when they don't. It especially bugs me that I need a whole separate app for Substack community.

@jzitt @matunos @tante

No you don't. You can subscribe to substack newsletters' RSS feeds by appending "/feed" to the link for the newsletter like this:

https://[name of newsletter]/substack.com/feed

@juliesbits @matunos @tante I can't seem to get that to work. Can you give an example? And should it include the Community chats as well as the posts?

@jzitt @matunos @tante

I follow several substack blogs and they all follow the same convention. I don't follow any related community chats.

Here's an example of one that I follow

Regular Order website address

https://jamiedupree.substack.com/

Regular Order RSS feed:

https://jamiedupree.substack.com/feed/

Regular Order by Jamie Dupree

Digging into Congress and Washington. Click to read Regular Order by Jamie Dupree, a Substack publication with thousands of readers.

@juliesbits @matunos @tante
Ah, OK, The was a spare "/" in the URL in the previous post.

But when I said "community", the community chat was what I meant... But I see that that's now available on the actual post pages, which is better than needing the app.

@jzitt @matunos @tante

Glad you figured it out. Happy reading!

@tante How would they track the correctness and currency of your email address, though? 😂
@tante Or just have RSS feeds back for everything.

@tante atleast with substack every newsletter has a RSS feed

and, @janl mentioned https://kill-the-newsletter.com/ is stellar

Kill the Newsletter!

Convert email newsletters into Atom feeds

@yesh @janl luckily Newsblur (my feedreader) can handle newsletters whether they have feeds or not. Still: I don't like workarounds.
@tante Wait, you mean they aren't? 🤷
@tante My favorite is when they are blogs but you still get a newsletter to remind you to just go to the blog.
@tante the #1 reason I did not make a substack. I absolutely detest getting more emails that I won't read.
@tante Something I will never understand, why did newsletter became relevant again? They sucked in the 2000s and suck now too. Now my inbox is getting more cluttered again.

@tante Yeah... but I'm also ok with them having a list of their subscribers.

Plus, putting them all in Readwise Reader means the difference is a lot less significant on my side.

@tante Same. I reroute everything to a read-it-later app. Luckily Substacks have RSS feeds so I don’t actually have to subscribe with my email.
@tante we’ve replaced RSS with email
@tante @klauspforr shhh: they are just blogs

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@tante I pay Feedly a lot of money to make all of my newsletters into blogs again.