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Do you still subscribe to newsletters?

10 points by a_kaay ↗ HN
Personally, I find it hard to subscribe to newsletters these days because reading them get too burdensome and my mailbox is overcrowded at this point. Is it just me?

What will make you subscribe to a newsletter today?

18 comments

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QuarterRoy
No. My inbox is already hell even with filters and rules.

And I love how we were going to not be so independent on email when slack and others came out and now I have to be logged into slack, MS teams, and 2 other apps as well as email due to the different apps adopted by various customers.

bombcar
A newsletter that had pertinent and interesting information that I’d’ve not already seen elsewhere by the time it arrives is something I enjoy.

I have one - the newsletter for https://www.centipedepress.com/

Anything tech or major news related I’ve already read heavily about.

Morieris
I have only one, Adam Levine's Money Stuff. I don't think I'd be able to handle more newsletters though. I remember subscribing to too many in the past, and eventually filtering them all into the garbage or unsubscribing. As for why this one newsletter stuck, I think it's due to Levine's tone and enthusiasm for the material. And also due to how much garbage is out there when you try to find information on financial markets. It's nice to have a clear signal through the noise.
dhr
I think you mean Matt Levine, rather than Adam Levine of Maroon 5. Though both do have great tone and enthusiasm for their material.
bawis
Is it good for someone who's ''into'' crypto ?
activiation
It depends what counts as a newsletter...
PaulHoule
I don't subscribe to newsletters, instead I developed a smart RSS reader that can ingest a few thousand articles a day and show me just a few hundred.
pndy
I never subscribed to any newsletter in all years I'm on the Internet
daveoc64
I was surprised when they seemed to make a comeback.

They feel like a solution from the 1990s.

laygir
Unsubscribing from newsletters is a constant routine for me. But once in a while I do subscribe to one or two on purpose.
mattbgates
I do and I receive the emails but as far as "active reading" goes, I might catch a headline here or there and read it, but otherwise, I usually open it or ignore it and delete it.
zhte415
I will subscribe to a newsletter when it provides an RSS feed.

Otherwise it's unwanted, intrusive, selfish, invasion of my inbox pushing content rather than allowing orderly pull.

berkeshire
Yes, if they bring insights. Not merely facts or data. Matt Levine, Farnam Street, James Clear - they add value in their own ways. I dont read every issue though.
KomoD
No, I try to keep my inbox as clean as possible, I prefer websites or RSS for that kind of stuff.
shortrounddev2
I never subscribed to newsletters, and email has become totally useless noise to me