Many of you have received excessive duplicates of my first newsletter. My apologies. I didn’t know what was going on. I checked the email list import from Substack to see if it had multiplied duplicates, but there were no problems there.

So I emailed Buttondown support, and it turns out it was a platform glitch in some new code, so they rolled it back, and it should be fixed. I was really impressed with a quick personal response! So hopefully it’s fixed now. Please let me know if it’s not.

As I mentioned, Buttondown doesn’t have the growth incentives of a platform like Substack, and that’s why I chose it. It started as a one-person team bootstrapped platform and thus doesn’t have external investors and VCs overvaluing it and generating intensive growth demands like so many start-ups on the fast track to enshittification.

I’m not trying to advertise for them, and I’m enough of a tech naif that maybe I’m just being duped by advertising copy, and they will go the way of every platform once they get growth. I am just reflecting on the upside and downsides here of glitches like we just saw, but also the responsiveness of what I believe is still a small team, even though I don’t pay for anything here yet, because this is just a small free newsletter. I’m happy with my choice.