What a fascinating concept. You might hit the limit and then ask people not actually reading to unsubscribe to open spots for new readers.

The public incentives of social media — likes, hearts, reblogs, follower counts, the metrics that platforms enthusiastically refer to as “engagement” — didn’t exist in email, and especially not on TinyLetter. The platform itself had no built-in recommendations or ways to self-promote, quashing any aspirations for virality. Even subscriber counts were originally capped at 2,000. You couldn’t even pay to raise the limit.

@jarrod This would best (only work?) with a newsletter or something not available on the public web. But it would relieve some of the pressure, and kind of neat to know you’re writing only to your truly dedicated readers:

> But what she was publishing on her TinyLetter helped her explore shape and tone in her writing. Meanwhile, Shane could be read, but not by an audience so large that it would discourage her from experimentation.

@jarrod I never used TinyLetter, but I knew about it and thought it sounded pretty great. This post was a good memorandum, and a worthwhile read. I’ll just add a link to what I consider to be TinyLetter’s spirtual successor: Buttondown.