Every blue moon I go on Substack just to see what's going on. Now the starting point is their "Notes" section. But I just clicked one and it opened a blog post-length essay. Truly cursed.
You're a blogging platform! And you're letting people "microblog" a full essay for some unwitting reader to consume as this badly-set wall of text?
Matt Baer
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