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Reuben Salsa's avatar

Its interesting you should mention dropping subscribers. Its clear to me, having shifted from platform to platform, that there is also a follow for follow culture even in newsletters. People who 'read' over 200 newsletters with no stars against mine. But what happens when they're dropped? Read ratio is up but is your reach down? FOMO on the one individual who spots your avatar in their long tail and subscribes. Does read ratio matter when the newsletter is free? Certainly subscription counts. The bigger the number the more likely people subscribe to find out what all the fuss is about. So yeah, on my mind but not causing issues right now.

Thanks also for the mention Zac. I would love to collaborate with someone, just waiting for an invite!

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Grandma Smillew's avatar

Hot take: read rates is a useless indicator, only the number of paid subscribers matters.

On this topic, congrats, dear Zane. 6 subscribers sounds good to me, here's wishing you many more.

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