This is a story of how a random person on the internet set me thinking and eventually triggered a change to this blog. It started last September, when someone suggested offering email subscriptions in addition to the existing RSS feed. The thing is… I was purposefully not offering email subscriptions! What a waste, someone might say: you had multiple articles reach the Hacker News frontpage in 2023, yet you failed to “capitalize” on the opportunity to “grow” your email subscriber base.
