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The reasoning for the Substack exodus is a tad pathetic

Has anyone heard of Hit Points? It's a one person blog / newsletter that's run by the former editor of Edge magazine who now acts as a game consultant and freelance writer.
Hit Points used to be hosted on Substack, but due to a few issues which its author, Nathan Brown, has had with the platform (which he talks about here), he's decided to leave the platform and set up shop using the Ghost platform.
Looking around the internet for why Nathan Brown has decided to move, I came across the following comment on Rllmukforum (a videogames forum) - which pretty much articulates how I feel.
Obviously you can do what you want with your newsletter, but this Substack news strikes me as the most nothing of nothingburgers. The Atlantic found out of thousands of accounts, a total of six, none of which were paid by or making any money for Substack, and had less than a hundred readers put together, all of which they promptly kicked off. This is so small I don't even think most people on Substack have heard of it!
And a few accounts doing performative quitting, drove you to kill off, what - your main income source? In a cost of living crisis!? I sure hope you don't end up sat around typing into the void on one of these open source services like al...

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