A family newspaper
Relatives email in their little updates. Every week, fortnight or month, everyone gets one tidy issue in their inbox. No accounts to make, no passwords for grandparents to remember, no feed, and nothing on the public internet.
Name the paper, choose weekly, fortnightly or monthly, and add the people who write and the people who read. That is the whole of the admin.
A relative emails a few sentences and a photo to your submission address. There is nothing for them to log into and nothing to install.
On the day you chose, it is laid out as one newspaper and delivered. Readers open their email and read it. That is all there is.
Yes and no. Those sites do a great many other things. Everyone needs an account, grandparents need to remember passwords, and everybody has to add you. And it does not feel private any more — ads, pages you did not ask for, articles written to make you argue.
This is a core update about the small things happening in your lives that do not need to be posted on the internet. If you would rather use those sites, use those instead.
$10.00 a month
Your first three months are free, and they only start counting when your first issue actually goes out. No card is asked for when you sign up.
Only the person running the newsletter pays. Writers and readers never pay anything and never need an account.