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Revue Getting Shut down

Jatin Sharma on December 14, 2022

Revue makes it easy for journalists, writers and creators to send a newsletter — and make money with it. It was built for people who publish, whet...
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Jatin Sharma

Nope, Everything will be gone by soon. Elon Musk is Thanos right now, he's just making things disappear with a single snap.

BTW paid newsletter, on December 20, 2022 they will set all paid subscriptions to cancel at the end of their billing cycle. So that subscribers won't be charged.

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Chris Jarvis

@nickytonline wrote an app to help writes grab their newsletters via the Revue api. Link in this article.

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Jatin Sharma

That is very useful tool as it returns the HTML of your newsletter.

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Andy Piper

I've moved to Buttondown, which offers an import service and is generally very nice so far.

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Andrew Weaver

Buttondown looks super cool. Good to hear there are good alternatives to Revue out there

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Jatin Sharma

That could be a good alternative. I'll have to move to let's see where I land.

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Andrew Weaver

Has there been any statement about why they're shutting it down (other than Elon doing Elon things)? Can't seem to find anything other than the press release about it

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Andy Piper

twitter.com/mdekuijper/status/1603...

I doubt you will hear any explanation.

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Jatin Sharma

Same thoughts 💭

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Jatin Sharma

Same here, they might release another statement. Let's see if they do.