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Thank you - appreciate all the feedback!

I invested quite a bit into speed, and thankfully Next.js has a lot of great built-in support to make things fast - incremental static regeneration, link prefetching, image optimization, etc.

For the editor bugs - thanks for highlighting, I filed a bug and definitely hoping to tackle this eventually.

Agreed on the documentation as well - it's on my radar to improve.

For custom domain support and RSS - both features on the roadmap! Likely RSS first, as that's quite a bit easier to implement, and custom domain support shortly after that. (Custom domain support is probably the #1 feature request at the moment).



Please use Caddy for custom domains (a web server I wrote that excels at this): https://caddy.community/t/serving-tens-of-thousands-of-domai...


I honestly do like 90% of my internet reading through RSS, so yeah, I think that's the more important one anyway :)


I just implemented basic RSS functionality. There's now an "RSS" link at the bottom of all blog posts and pages.

Thanks again for the feedback!


I'd caution against asserting 200ms page loads and 99 Lighthouse scores -- you don't actually appear to be coming close to either of those metrics.


Seconding this. Lighthouse on the vs-substack page gives a 82 on performance. That's a big difference, and is also under the 85 reported for Substack.


I’ve been thinking about blogging for a while, and your offering is the first that makes me want to go ahead. Custom domain would be nice!


Just circling back here - I launched custom domain support today (for a one-time fee of $50, you can unlock custom domains permanently for your blog).


Custom domains are coming up real soon!




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