My Citation Needed newsletter is no longer on Substack!

https://citationneeded.news/citation-needed-has-a-new-home/

#substack #SubstackMigration

@molly0xfff link isn’t opening

@molly0xfff Uh oh... did the site get the hug of death?

@molly0xfff Your citation needed newsletter is no longer online :(

@molly0xfff 🎉

@molly0xfff FYI:

and now it's no longer online at all 😅 bear with me, you hugged it to death

back up, i think 🤞

@kvnweb @molly0xfff is there a name for that yet? Tootdotting, perhaps?

@molly0xfff Bravo!

@molly0xfff The sub-confirmation link is currently not working with a 500 error 😆 I'll wait a bit again to sub. It's a good problem to have Molly!

@molly0xfff Awesome! And I conveniently had some spare money from subs i cancelled on substack so here you go.

@molly0xfff It works for me, and yay to self-hosting!! 🥳

@molly0xfff Subscribed and gladly paying to support your indie freedom. 🤘

@kboyd it needs one! Every time I share a link and I see the traffic graph I am like holy hell! And I only have 1/100th of the followers that @molly0xfff has...

"Temporarily Tooted Out" or TTO'd?

@kboyd @molly0xfff on the other hand, maybe we should just go back to using centralized infrastructure... :)

@kvnweb @molly0xfff I think there's a middle ground, one that would allow multiple mastodon servers to efficiently and safely share these lookups.

@molly0xfff As other folks have mentioned, you'll need to look into a cache system for your site. Especially any endpoints you have that Fediverse servers access.

@ZacBelado i stuck cloudflare in front of it, but looks like i may need to look into something a little more.

@basil there will be a newsletter issue about it very shortly!

@molly0xfff When I was using Cloudflare I was often struck by how often it didn't seem to do what I thought it would :-)

What are you using as a backend?

@molly0xfff Nice, subbed (and thanks for having RSS!)

@ZacBelado self-hosting Ghost

@molly0xfff I wasn’t aware of your writing until I saw this toot. Good for you for standing up for principles and leaving a site that platforms Nazis.

A question though: your bio shows an active Twitter account. Aren’t they just as guilty of platforming neo-Nazis, anti-semites, and other hate speech accounts—especially since the musk takeover?

@molly0xfff oh sick! welcome to the Ghost family! i’ve used Ghost for about a year and i don’t think i could ever go back to blogging on a closed platform. i like owning my content fully.

@molly0xfff Not something I am familiar with. I did see this page that has some specific settings for edge caching with Cloudflare.

https://esc.sh/blog/ghost-blog-caching-in-cloudflare/

@molly0xfff Seems pretty peppy now. Maybe Cloudflare caught up with you?

@ZacBelado made some caching tweaks on my end too :)

@molly0xfff I recently paid $85 to support you on Substack and now you’re asking me to pay for a brand new subscription. I am very disappointed.

@mdrips you absolutely do not need to pay for a new subscription. all previous subscribers are still subscribed!

@molly0xfff Yay! Caching was the one part of running a website that I really disliked.

@buherator good lord, no

@molly0xfff congrats on the move!
I took out an annual subscription back in October through SubStack. Should this transfer over to the new site? Is there anything I need to do myself on that front?

@hugh it's been transferred. you should be able to sign in at the new site under that email and see your subscription in the "Account" section.

@molly0xfff
You go girl!

@molly0xfff subscribed via RSS!

@buherator will fix, thanks for the heads up

@molly0xfff Thanks for leading by example! :D

@molly0xfff woo!! i'm glad it has a more easily found RSS link, too, gonna go migrate my feed reeder to the new link now!

@MindmeshLink woo! the old feed URL should redirect to the new feed, fwiw

@molly0xfff I received the goodbye email from substack, but no hello from Ghost...

@molly0xfff Thank you for having principles.

@buherator should be better now!

@molly0xfff Congrats! SourceSerif looks really weird for some reason, it might be my installed fonts.

@Aissen oh dear, that's ... uh... jazzy

@Aissen should be better now!

@buherator @molly0xfff it has a kind of Mary Poppins vibe to it...

@molly0xfff I'd very much like to hear about your migration process and the specific changes you have made to your Gost / Mailgun setup. What did you choose as your comments integration?

I'm myself hosting on Ghost but not yet leveraging the subscription/newsletter parts in large part because some things don't quite "click" for me. (not that anyone reads my stuff, but it would be nice to let them sign up 😉)

@jjcelery I'll be publishing on that shortly! the comments are ghost's built-in commenting feature. I believe it does require you to have the members feature turned on, though.

@molly0xfff
So my subscription transferred but my billing info (credit card) didn't. So auto-renew wouldn't have worked. Took two minutes for me to fix that (signed in, on the site, opened the email link back to the site, entered data on the account tab to relink my payment method).

Just a heads up in case it's not just me.

@molly0xfff one vote for some sort of unified verification please IDK what that looks like though

@kynyc unified verification?

@molly0xfff

Congratulations! Awesome move and for all of the right reasons. Leaders lead from the front.

@molly0xfff
Hi Molly, I haven't received your new newsletter outside of Substack yet: is this expected because of the technical issues and I should just wait or should I sign up to the new newsletter at your site?

@ddlyh hello! probably due to email sending issues on my end, but if you DM or email (molly@mollywhite.net) me your email address i can check it out to be sure.

@molly0xfff The website looks much slicker (with not having to share brand space with Substack and other newsletters).

FYI:

1. The Choose button looks inactive to me with it being a gray color.

2. Sign-in link email confirmation does not work with Protonmail too if that helps with debugging.

@lwtong ruh roh, thanks for the heads up!

@8petros for now just RSS, but would love to federate at some point!

@molly0xfff

Looks like you still need to update your profile on Mastodon to link to your new newsletter location.

Also, it there a way to make a one-time donation to your newsletter? I hate signing up for recurring payments, but I don't mind making one-time payments every once in a while.

@ZhiZhu thanks for letting me know, I've updated the link 🙂 as for one-time donations, yes! https://www.mollywhite.net/support/

@ZhiZhu @molly0xfff Yes, you can pick the "annual" donation starting at $10. That's in effect a one-time donation.