Transitioning from Revue to Substack + Introducing Guest Writers

Hey everyone 👋
Hope you folks are keeping well :)

It’s been quite a while since we folks interacted. These have been turbulent times, however. So needing a little bit of quiet is very much understandable. In the middle of all hustle-and-bustle of Twitter’s takeover by Elon Musk, we did hear the news that Revue, a newsletter platform that Twitter acquired in early 2021 (and what we used for another random community newsletter), will be shut down by the end of this year.

Forgoing Revue

This was quite a jolt for the another random community team, especially me, since we had grown to like and depend on the Revue platform for the newsletter. Revue’s ease of use and integration into Twitter allowed us to build another random community newsletter as swiftly as possible.

Inside Twitter’s product roadmap under Musk

With this update, the team and I decided to shift our platform to Substack. Substack has been actively supporting writers and creators for quite a while. The minimal UI, free newsletter option, and ease of use made them a wonderful choice for us to use.

With that, I’m happy to share that another random community newsletter is back up and running and will be accessible on newsletter.oberai.dev as earlier.

Introducing Guest Writers

One rather interesting perk of Substack, which was missing in Revue, is the ability to add more contributors for free. This got me wondering about how this newsletter was created to share unadulterated opinions while also giving back to the community. In my opinion, a part of giving back isn’t just educating and expressing but also creating a space and a stage for others to do so.

Created with DALL·E, an AI system by OpenAI

As a result, we’ve decided to allow Guest Writers to write in another random community newsletter! If you like to write about tech, communities, DevRel, mental health, and so on, we’d love to have you over. We do have certain values that we will look for in the content:

• The content must carry your opinions and be unafraid. While we respect diplomacy, we encourage blunt honesty, even if it means disagreeing with the world.

• The content must be substantiated by experiences, statistics, or other means. We want to maintain a certain level of depth while preventing blanket statements.

• The content must educate. Voices are important, but they must carry some purpose.

The content will be strongly vetted and validated before making it to the newsletter. If you’re up for this challenge, please fill out our interest form.

Click the picture to access the form

Thank you much for staying around and reading another random community newsletter. I hope we will continue creating content and educating folks the way we have in the days to come.