Life After Tinyletter

As I’ve mentioned in recent emails to to the Disquiet Junto music community, I need to move the Junto list to a new service because Tinyletter.com itself is being shut down on the last day of February 2024. I considered Substack, which is where my This Week in Sound newsletter is based, but I have decided I’ll likely go with Buttondown. Unlike Substack, Buttondown isn’t free, but the cost under 5,000 subscribers is reasonable, and Buttondown has a tool by which subscribers can pitch in a little to support the infrastructure — though, to be clear, there will be zero pressure to contribute financially. (We’re at about 2,000 subscribers currently. How quickly we grow will in part be correlated with how good Buttondown’s spam account filtering is.) One nice thing about moving away from Tinyletter is that I can schedule the emails in most modern newsletter services in advance, as is the case with Buttondown, meaning even a few weeks ahead of schedule. That may seem like a small thing but it’s very helpful. Anyhow, it looks like Buttondown is where I’ll land, but if you have other suggestions, lemme know. I’ll do the switchover soon, likely in January.