Big Changes at The Slow Scroll
A new website and changing newsletter schedules.
We have some significant changes happening in The Slow Scroll, and I'm very excited to share them with you. I hope you don't mind me sending this extra email to do that.
New Website
We have a new website at https://theslowscroll.com. This site replaces the existing version that served as an archive for our daily newsletter. I will post new reads here individually, which will make browsing individual pieces much easier. On the main page, you will find the most recent featured and recommended reads. You will also find links to authors, publications, and tags within each recommendation. Using these indexes, I'm hoping that you will be able to browse through our past recommendations with ease.
I had a lot of fun building this website and look forward to watching it grow. Currently, it holds our recommendations from the past week or so, but I will continue adding more from our past newsletters. I also have some additional features in mind that I will continue working on.
Our existing website was moved to https://newsletter.theslowscroll.com where it will continue to serve as the archive for our newsletter. If you are a subscriber, you can continue managing your subscription here.
Newsletter Schedule
Finally, the cadence of my newsletter sending is also changing to become less regular, although not by much. Instead of sending a newsletter every weekday at a set time, I will send one when we have enough content accumulated for a roundup, up to a maximum of one per day. If everything goes as planned, I expect this to mean around three or four weekly emails on average, sometimes less, sometimes more.
These changes will allow me more flexibility when editing The Slow Scroll. As a one-man team, sending a newsletter with recent content every single weekday, rain or shine, has been quite the commitment. Sometimes, my day job becomes busier, or I need to travel, or have some extra appointments, or, you know, life throws you a curveball. I found that I need to be able to take a day off or spend some extra time editing without stressing about the newsletter going out on time.
The newsletter will still be split between featured and recommended reads. In the past, I always picked two featured pieces for each newsletter. Going forward, it will have as many as needed, depending on the number of featured picks since the last roundup.
If you don't want to wait for the roundups to learn about new recommendations, our new website has an RSS feed you can subscribe to using your favorite RSS reader. Additional tools, like IFTTT, can also perform additional actions when there is a new entry in the RSS feed.
As always, please simply reply to this email if you have any feedback or thoughts you would like to share with me.