This an excellent question to which there is a long and tedious reply!
My work on Medium pre-dates Substack by some years, and the material I am currently posting on Medium was originally on a WordPress site.
My WordPress site started in 2011, and after being hacked for the umpteenth time, I decided to move to Medium. The move to Medium didn't go well - the import failed, and I was left with a site that was a mess, and I decided to abandon it. (When it was abandoned, I picked up 650 subscribers.)
About two years ago, I decided to sort out that Medium site and started work on rewriting the posts and preparing them for re-publication. It has been a long project, and I still have about two years to go.
So, to answer your question, why not on Substack?
The posts on Medium do not fit in as long-form work on this newsletter, so I would have to start a new one. Maybe I should? And meanwhile, readers of this newsletter might enjoy some stories from my travels.
Maybe I could post the material in a new newsletter on Substack, but there is the problem of 'duplicate' material on the web, and Google doesn't like that.
Thanks for the comment.
Do you think it would be worth spinning out a newsletter on it?
I don't know why you wouldn't want to start a new newsletter on Substack. I wouldn't worry about Google, to be honest. The algorithm is messed up and SEO isn't as big a deal these days as it was when we were younger. Plus, gather enough of a following on Substack and you could monetize it.
I can see your point. My concern is that it is 'old news', that is, the trips were from many years ago. I'll have a think about it. As you say, there is nothing really to lose.
Mmm, do them as "best of" and perhaps share some contemporary reflections about those trips.
That is an interesting idea.... Thanks.
Question--why are you posting that ski trip content on Medium and not on Substack? At the very least, I would say mirror it to Substack.
This an excellent question to which there is a long and tedious reply!
My work on Medium pre-dates Substack by some years, and the material I am currently posting on Medium was originally on a WordPress site.
My WordPress site started in 2011, and after being hacked for the umpteenth time, I decided to move to Medium. The move to Medium didn't go well - the import failed, and I was left with a site that was a mess, and I decided to abandon it. (When it was abandoned, I picked up 650 subscribers.)
About two years ago, I decided to sort out that Medium site and started work on rewriting the posts and preparing them for re-publication. It has been a long project, and I still have about two years to go.
So, to answer your question, why not on Substack?
The posts on Medium do not fit in as long-form work on this newsletter, so I would have to start a new one. Maybe I should? And meanwhile, readers of this newsletter might enjoy some stories from my travels.
Maybe I could post the material in a new newsletter on Substack, but there is the problem of 'duplicate' material on the web, and Google doesn't like that.
Thanks for the comment.
Do you think it would be worth spinning out a newsletter on it?
I don't know why you wouldn't want to start a new newsletter on Substack. I wouldn't worry about Google, to be honest. The algorithm is messed up and SEO isn't as big a deal these days as it was when we were younger. Plus, gather enough of a following on Substack and you could monetize it.
I can see your point. My concern is that it is 'old news', that is, the trips were from many years ago. I'll have a think about it. As you say, there is nothing really to lose.