One year Darkrooms on Substack

And what a year it has been...

Exactly one year and one day ago I started Darkrooms on Substack. A year in which a lot has happened. This newsletter will focus on some of the things I'm most proud of, or perhaps it's better to say most pleased with, as this is only the beginning. I have a lot of plans for the further development of Darkrooms.

It was early June 2022 when I was listening to the wonderful podcast Deep Natter by Jeffery Saddoris (writes

Iterations

) and Sean Tucker. Jeffery was talking about Substack and the ease of publishing articles that were also emailed and could be read in a browser.

I already had a blog running on Wordpress, but I did not like the idea of constantly updating it and adding new plugins, so I tried Substack.

I've never doubted the switch, it really is so easy to focus on the one thing you need to do: write. The fact that Substack keeps adding features like an iOS and Android app, Chat, Recommendations and most recently Notes tells me that I made t…