Why Platformer is leaving Substack
We’ve seen this movie before — and we won’t stick around to watch it play out
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Is Substack Notes a “Twitter clone”? We asked CEO Chris Best
Substack Notes just dropped. Can the startup survive this foray into social media?
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Welcome to the new Verge
A complete redesign of The Verge that marries the best of old-school blogging with a modern news feed experience.
Medium’s new CEO on the company’s journalism mistakes, bundle economics, and life after Ev Williams
"For me, fundamentally, the mistake was thinking that journalism was where Medium was going to shine."