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Surprised? An email subscription box with almost zero information, no example publication or past issues for perusal, unknown subscription or payment model, multiple multi-page privacy policies... I'm surprised any of the target audience of people burned out by the shit that most media has become would assume it is legit and not going to burn you in some way.


If you close the subscription modal almost all of their content is available. This is a good example of their content: https://fixthenews.com/p/ftn-309-colours-of-the-moon-wash


This points to a Substack UI/UX problem.

If a first time visitor to Substack doesn't know this, it's a bad experience.


I didn't realize it was a modal. Rendered as the full page here, with an 'X' in the top right corner the only indication the real site was behind it.




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