It's a minor thing, Joe, but I just noticed that your new site (https://www.joeposnanski.com/, for those who are curious) does not have any sort of "contact me" bit anywhere. If that's intentional, kudos to you for a pretty baller move, but if it was an oversight, I thought you might want to know.
I was fishing around because I thought this page had gone down and we'd all been moved, and I couldn't find a way to log in over there or anything.
I’ve followed Joe many times, no small concession since I’m, yes, a baseball fan but also a Yankee fan. I let the former not the latter guide me on my support of Joe! Now I’m being asked to go to a platform run by an Orioles fan. Oh, the horrors!
To paraphrase Butterfly McQueen, I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies, or birthin’ blogs. I do know good writing, and Joe has always had that, hence why I’ve followed him, figuratively, town to town, up and down the dial. (JoePos-like aside: I’m pretty sure I’m the first person here to reference Butterfly McQueen and WKRP in the same sentence.)
I’ll check out beehiive, but I already have concerns based on other comments here that it doesn’t have robust commenting tools. That helps build community, and community is important. While we all root for different teams, I know we all share a love of baseball and intelligent writing. That is our community. It’s not a place for “fanboyism.” There’s a place for that; it’s just not here.
Regarding point 1, I’m not sure I agree. I see a free exchange of ideas from all sides, which is why Substack has grown. I noticed today that John Cleese has arrived on Substack. He’s been great as an equal-opportunity attacker! I never viewed Joe as working for Substack. It’s an open platform for writers and content creators. We should encourage that.
I have the most questions with point 2. You’re praising the Substack wonderful owners and thanking them for how much they helped you, but then you highlighted how some former subscribers refuse to give Substack another penny. Why are they informing your decision, as opposed to others who may now leave you for perhaps equally good reasons, and as you abandon Substack, which you said helped you greatly? You’ll never make everyone happy. I probably would have left point 2 off since I’m not sure it achieved the transparency you wanted, instead leaving more questions unanswered when the dots are connected.
With that, I’ll catch you at the new platform. If it’s good, I’ll remain a subscriber. I guess I should ask if refunds are available in case it’s not? Another point is some people may not be happy their personal information and credit card is freely shifting platforms. I’m guessing that info is controlled by you and not Substack, which is different than Patreon.
This blog is what got me going with my own column here, nearly two years ago, so thank you for inspiring that chapter in my own writing career, Joe. And, certainly, kudos on the splendid writing that's kept me as a paid sub for this span, too! I'll cross my fingers that this transition is smooth and seamless.
Hi Joe: Thank you for your detailed process, thoughtfulness and openness.
I recognized that your approach would lead you down a very long and winding path about what to do and how to get it done. There’s no single platform that would have satisfied everything that you’re doing now. I stuck around for what I considered to be the inevitable result.
I’m planning on doing “nothing”, leaning on the hard work that you performed to allow me to continue to receive an email to read daily.
I applaud your responsiveness to your readers, your approach to Substack, and the wide array of offerings that you’re providing.
The First Amendment to the Constitution permits the speech under discussion and permits Substack to continue to publish such speech. (Based, in part, on various holdings of the US Supreme Court over the years.)
There’s nothing that requires any of us to commercially support such speech, even indirectly. Those Brilliant Readers that choose to do so likely already subscribe elsewhere on Substack.
I hope the JoeBlogs app rolls out immediately, because I read in the Substack app and I have valued very much that it’s a one-stop shop for your work, Molly Knight’s, and those of other independent writers I read. It will certainly be an adjustment to lose that, and a tough one if I have to find you in my ever-crowded inbox of email subs. I did not follow Craig Calcaterra when he left largely for that reason… but I will follow you. And maybe I’ll go check out what Craig is up to now, too.
Part of why I think I’m more okay with leaving now than a year ago is that the Substack app’s direction toward social media has been annoying. Substack is trying too hard to become yet another Twitter replacement after they had carved out such a good niche as their own independent thing for longer-form writing. So I applaud that this was one of your reasons for leaving.
I’m perplexed by the level of controversy in these comments centered on the Nazi thing, which (while also a reasoning that I support) reads as a clearly secondary consideration.
Joe says that 90% of th people evade his posts in the email. But when I do that, I don’t see any comments at the end. If I hit button it takes me to the website to make a comment. Since I can’t imagine reading Joe’s posts without reading ay least most of the comments, I very rarely read the email. Am I missing something?
In reading the comments it seems that the beehiiv comment functionality is- or has been- sorely lacking in several respects. Really hope this isn’t going to be the case for Joe’s daily posts going forward. A well functioning comment section is one of my favorite things about the whole Joe’s blog world. The commenting that happened on The Athletic when Joe serialized The Baseball 100 was one of my favorite internet experiences ever.
Something maybe worth sharing with people ... I never get emails. This is because I downloaded the app and once you do it flips on a setting that stops the emails and you can read in the app. I just found this setting and changed it, so hopefully I will start getting emails tomorrow and onwards.
It’s dismaying that not only do some JoeBlogs readers like the Yankees, but some are cool with companies that promote racist hacks. Some even seem to be so confused about free speech that they think they’re being principled good guys in supporting companies that promote racist hacks. But free speech has nothing to do with it. The freedom-loving response to another’s freely expressed racism is not to give them a platform and promote what they say but to use one’s own freedom to keep that wickedness away.
“And for those of you who read on the Substack app, well, there will be a special JoeBlogs app for you. More on that as we get closer.”
So we need another app to read on beehiiv? Seems pretty close right now. Will you post on both until we figure it out or is this a cold turkey situation?
It's a minor thing, Joe, but I just noticed that your new site (https://www.joeposnanski.com/, for those who are curious) does not have any sort of "contact me" bit anywhere. If that's intentional, kudos to you for a pretty baller move, but if it was an oversight, I thought you might want to know.
I was fishing around because I thought this page had gone down and we'd all been moved, and I couldn't find a way to log in over there or anything.
Anybody know when this is happening?
I’ve followed Joe many times, no small concession since I’m, yes, a baseball fan but also a Yankee fan. I let the former not the latter guide me on my support of Joe! Now I’m being asked to go to a platform run by an Orioles fan. Oh, the horrors!
To paraphrase Butterfly McQueen, I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies, or birthin’ blogs. I do know good writing, and Joe has always had that, hence why I’ve followed him, figuratively, town to town, up and down the dial. (JoePos-like aside: I’m pretty sure I’m the first person here to reference Butterfly McQueen and WKRP in the same sentence.)
I’ll check out beehiive, but I already have concerns based on other comments here that it doesn’t have robust commenting tools. That helps build community, and community is important. While we all root for different teams, I know we all share a love of baseball and intelligent writing. That is our community. It’s not a place for “fanboyism.” There’s a place for that; it’s just not here.
Regarding point 1, I’m not sure I agree. I see a free exchange of ideas from all sides, which is why Substack has grown. I noticed today that John Cleese has arrived on Substack. He’s been great as an equal-opportunity attacker! I never viewed Joe as working for Substack. It’s an open platform for writers and content creators. We should encourage that.
I have the most questions with point 2. You’re praising the Substack wonderful owners and thanking them for how much they helped you, but then you highlighted how some former subscribers refuse to give Substack another penny. Why are they informing your decision, as opposed to others who may now leave you for perhaps equally good reasons, and as you abandon Substack, which you said helped you greatly? You’ll never make everyone happy. I probably would have left point 2 off since I’m not sure it achieved the transparency you wanted, instead leaving more questions unanswered when the dots are connected.
With that, I’ll catch you at the new platform. If it’s good, I’ll remain a subscriber. I guess I should ask if refunds are available in case it’s not? Another point is some people may not be happy their personal information and credit card is freely shifting platforms. I’m guessing that info is controlled by you and not Substack, which is different than Patreon.
Anyway, catch you all “over there.”
hopefully the transition is seamless; the lowercase thing is a definite affectation, but one i'm enamored of with my artist name, jd magic...
This blog is what got me going with my own column here, nearly two years ago, so thank you for inspiring that chapter in my own writing career, Joe. And, certainly, kudos on the splendid writing that's kept me as a paid sub for this span, too! I'll cross my fingers that this transition is smooth and seamless.
Hi Joe: Thank you for your detailed process, thoughtfulness and openness.
I recognized that your approach would lead you down a very long and winding path about what to do and how to get it done. There’s no single platform that would have satisfied everything that you’re doing now. I stuck around for what I considered to be the inevitable result.
I’m planning on doing “nothing”, leaning on the hard work that you performed to allow me to continue to receive an email to read daily.
I applaud your responsiveness to your readers, your approach to Substack, and the wide array of offerings that you’re providing.
The First Amendment to the Constitution permits the speech under discussion and permits Substack to continue to publish such speech. (Based, in part, on various holdings of the US Supreme Court over the years.)
There’s nothing that requires any of us to commercially support such speech, even indirectly. Those Brilliant Readers that choose to do so likely already subscribe elsewhere on Substack.
Well done. And thank you.
I hope the JoeBlogs app rolls out immediately, because I read in the Substack app and I have valued very much that it’s a one-stop shop for your work, Molly Knight’s, and those of other independent writers I read. It will certainly be an adjustment to lose that, and a tough one if I have to find you in my ever-crowded inbox of email subs. I did not follow Craig Calcaterra when he left largely for that reason… but I will follow you. And maybe I’ll go check out what Craig is up to now, too.
Part of why I think I’m more okay with leaving now than a year ago is that the Substack app’s direction toward social media has been annoying. Substack is trying too hard to become yet another Twitter replacement after they had carved out such a good niche as their own independent thing for longer-form writing. So I applaud that this was one of your reasons for leaving.
I’m perplexed by the level of controversy in these comments centered on the Nazi thing, which (while also a reasoning that I support) reads as a clearly secondary consideration.
A question and a comment:
Joe says that 90% of th people evade his posts in the email. But when I do that, I don’t see any comments at the end. If I hit button it takes me to the website to make a comment. Since I can’t imagine reading Joe’s posts without reading ay least most of the comments, I very rarely read the email. Am I missing something?
In reading the comments it seems that the beehiiv comment functionality is- or has been- sorely lacking in several respects. Really hope this isn’t going to be the case for Joe’s daily posts going forward. A well functioning comment section is one of my favorite things about the whole Joe’s blog world. The commenting that happened on The Athletic when Joe serialized The Baseball 100 was one of my favorite internet experiences ever.
agree on the athletic comments bonanza during the B100.
I've never read the emails from Joe ... not sure I even get them.
I'll miss this app and hope the comments do remain vibrant and well functioning!
Good luck Joe! Like Jack Reacher says " Hope for the best and plan for the worst." At least that is what Jack says.
Good luck with the new platform, Joe! And those sound like some cool ideas you're noodling around.
Worth every penny of my subscription!! Renewed for the third time !!!! Thank you !!!!
About the only disruption I can think of will be updating my Gmail filter
Something maybe worth sharing with people ... I never get emails. This is because I downloaded the app and once you do it flips on a setting that stops the emails and you can read in the app. I just found this setting and changed it, so hopefully I will start getting emails tomorrow and onwards.
It’s dismaying that not only do some JoeBlogs readers like the Yankees, but some are cool with companies that promote racist hacks. Some even seem to be so confused about free speech that they think they’re being principled good guys in supporting companies that promote racist hacks. But free speech has nothing to do with it. The freedom-loving response to another’s freely expressed racism is not to give them a platform and promote what they say but to use one’s own freedom to keep that wickedness away.
“And for those of you who read on the Substack app, well, there will be a special JoeBlogs app for you. More on that as we get closer.”
So we need another app to read on beehiiv? Seems pretty close right now. Will you post on both until we figure it out or is this a cold turkey situation?
The Orioles signed Dylan Carlson!!!!!