Medium’s New Email Subscription Feature Is Great But Has One Major Flaw
“Subscribe to my email list”, is the way to go now
You’ve read the email. For a while now, at the top of your profile, you’ve seen an email button. With a click, your readers could sign up for your Medium-based newsletter. Now, this has been taken to the next level.
Email subscription page
Connect off Medium. Direct readers to a dedicated and optional landing page where they can sign up.
That’s a quote from Medium’s email I received this morning.
A new way to build a newsletter. Great!
That was my first reaction. And it is great. With a dedicated landing page that you’ll find under your usual Medium domain plus the addition of /subscribe in the URL, this creates a basic landing page you can link to for growing your newsletter, mailing list, or whatever you want to call it.
In theory, that would make other basic email list platforms for Medium writers obsolete. You could do it all within Medium. No Substack needed unless you wanted to monetize your newsletter specifically. ConvertKit would only make sense for its advanced stats features, automation, forms, and more.
