Techlore: New Blog and New Podcast Provider šŸ“°

Techlore has migrated to a new blog, and we’ve migrated to a new host for our Techlore Talks podcast!

Techlore Blog

Our new blog is built on Bear Blog, I’ve selected them for the following reasons:

  • Open source
  • Privacy-respecting
  • Minimal
  • No BS
  • Easy RSS

You can subscribe to the blog via RSS :slight_smile: I’ve been really enjoying the simplicity of Bear and think it’ll make things easier for us to manage from here on out. Shoutout to @theprivacydad for being the reason I discovered Bear Blog in the first place.


New Techlore Talks Host

This isn’t a major change since podcasts automatically redirect…but worth mentioning we’ve migrated to the same podcast host we use for Surveillance Report. Your podcast client should automatically convert the links with no interaction required, but just in case:

Follow Techlore Talks on our new feed :fire:


Substack?

For those wondering, yes these two moves mean we are no longer using Substack. There are numerous reasons for this decision, but a lot of it revolves around utilizing simpler tools that we feel you all will appreciate more. We’ve received several legitimate complaints from you about our Substack usage—and upon researching alternatives we found some better solutions. We’ll be refunding our paid Substack subscribers within the next 24 hours.


That’s all I got. Thank you all for your support and for pointing us towards better services :heart:

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Congrats on getting the new site up and running!

I was really concerned when I read ā€œNew Podcast Hostā€ I thought it meant Henry or Jonah got replaced lol.

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Bear actually looks amazing as a platform. Definitely a better alternative to substack without all of the bloat.

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I had exactly the same conclusion from the title! :rofl:

New blog is interesting considering it implies there was an old blog. This is the first I’ve heard of a Techlore blog so I will chuck it in my RSS feed for sure.

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Was Ghost a consideration as a blog platform (Not that Bear Blog is bad)?

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We rolled a full Ghost installation privately to test but weren’t happy with certain aspects of it. Though when we did we were looking for something that would also replace Substack’s podcasts alongside the blog.

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Nice to read this! Herman is also super good at responding to questions.

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Bearblog is insanely good and also pretty. Glad to have you there as well.

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Just sent out a formal PSA for Substack subscribers :slight_smile: (Though everything is unlisted so I guess you can’t view it unless you’re already subscribed)

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