Moving the newsletter to Beehiiv
I am currently migrating Short Ruby Newsletter to Beehiiv.
I hope to finalize the move by Sunday, 6 October, so the next edition can be sent via Beehiiv.
What is keeping me busy with this migration?
Roadblock: The imported content does not have image captions
The current roadblock is that the migration of old content did not import the image captions, where I was writing the citation ("Source: @name") with a link to the post in the screenshot.
I wrote to their support, and it seems like this is not supported so far.
So it seems my only decision is to manually add all those citations - which is a lot of work: there are 108 editions (and around 160 posts, because I experimented in the early days with various formats).
Unclear: What should I do with the content on Substack?
Once the migration is finished, what should I do with the content on Substack?
First, the content cannot remain there as there will be duplicates with the one being hosted on Beehiiv.
After the switch the main domain: newsletter.shortruby.com will point to Beehiiv and the Substack one will remain at shortruby.substack.com
Also, the subscribers should only be in a single place, so the list of subscribers on Substack should be deleted.
I am thinking about a couple of options:
Remove all the posts and unsubscribe everyone on Substack, but keep the subdomain there with a message stating that the newsletter is now hosted there.
Close the publication: this will delete all content and all subscribers
Over the weekend I have to take a decision also about this.