So...I did it. I tucked you all into a box and carried it over from Tiny Letter to Substack. I’d been going back and forth on the decision for months now. I liked the coziness of Tiny Letter, and I liked the email replies I would get from many of you. I also didn’t love the idea of moving over to the megacorp feel of Substack. But! I’m here because I want to talk with you, and even after all these years, I still miss the community of the blog days. Tiny Letter was getting a bit unreliable on the back end, and I’ve heard the letters are going to spam more often than not, so that was a downside. And the thing that made blogs feel like such a community back in the day weren’t private replies via emails, it was the comment section. Substack allows you to leave comments. Yes, comment sections can get tricky, but we’re among friends here. What I found in my blogging days and what I’ve found overwhelmingly on social media is that the people who choose to follow me, who want to hear what I have to say, are almost entirely well-intentioned, thoughtful people. It’s when the folks looking to stir up shit find me (my tweets) from the outside that things have gotten dicey. So I think comments will be a good thing. You can talk to each other! It’ll be like a dinner party, but without like...leaving the house and sharing germs and all that.
I love reading whatever you have to say, Cari! Happy to follow you here. I have a mailchimp newsletter and am wondering if I should migrate it over here. Still thinking it over. Thanks for staying in touch. I love the name of your newsletter too, btw. <3
Hooray! As a writer, knitter, and mama, I have long appreciated your thoughts . . . ever since I googled "how to do a yarn over" in 2006 and was served up Dogs Steal Yarn in the results. :)
Hi! I had forgotten all about the knit blog ring 😄 but not the knitting bloggers. So happy to see you're here; I follow on twitter but I myself don't tweet so it's not the same at all.
I’m also looking forward to hearing how it goes. I don’t love MailChimp and missed my chance to move my lil newsletter to Tiny Letter. And, a high profile knitblogger—you do indeed, you dare! I was a regular DSY reader. My best knit blog luck ever was being next to Yarn Harlot in the ring back then—it got me a couple of high profile publications and plenty of collateral views. Can we invent newsletter rings? Aka, if you liked this newsletter, why not check out Cari’s bookshelf neighbor _____?, etc etc… with all the techmology there’s gotta be a way. Regardless, I’m glad to still be in the loop, wherever it happens to fall.
Same Cari, New Box
Yes, please, thank you. HELLO LOVEBUG.
I love reading whatever you have to say, Cari! Happy to follow you here. I have a mailchimp newsletter and am wondering if I should migrate it over here. Still thinking it over. Thanks for staying in touch. I love the name of your newsletter too, btw. <3
Hello, Cari! Nice to see you here! I love having comments on Substack; I feel like there's potential here for conversations.
Happy to be here with you Cari! ❤️
Hooray! As a writer, knitter, and mama, I have long appreciated your thoughts . . . ever since I googled "how to do a yarn over" in 2006 and was served up Dogs Steal Yarn in the results. :)
So happy to be here, to be sharing this with you Cari
Hey, Cari, guapa. Jiumping into your box—let’s see what happens!
I’m happy to be here
Hi! I had forgotten all about the knit blog ring 😄 but not the knitting bloggers. So happy to see you're here; I follow on twitter but I myself don't tweet so it's not the same at all.
Hurray and hello! ❣️
I’m also looking forward to hearing how it goes. I don’t love MailChimp and missed my chance to move my lil newsletter to Tiny Letter. And, a high profile knitblogger—you do indeed, you dare! I was a regular DSY reader. My best knit blog luck ever was being next to Yarn Harlot in the ring back then—it got me a couple of high profile publications and plenty of collateral views. Can we invent newsletter rings? Aka, if you liked this newsletter, why not check out Cari’s bookshelf neighbor _____?, etc etc… with all the techmology there’s gotta be a way. Regardless, I’m glad to still be in the loop, wherever it happens to fall.