Do Not Worry! You Are Not Paying Substack!

I am reproducing here a post I just sent through my newsletter at its new home, notalegalrecord.net.

But first. If you do not see that email from notalegalrecord.net, here is the plan:

1. CHECK YOUR SPAM FOLDER! Some email providers have filtering tools that flag emails that “look” like those that used to come from Substack, and so mark them as spam. So go check your spam folder. If you find the emails, you can tell your email provider not to flag them as spam anymore. (Let me know if you need help.)

2. If you do not see the emails in your spam folder, please email me at corsent@notalegalrecord.net. I will figure out why not. If you are not on my subscriber list, I’ll put you back right away!

OK, now about payments.

One of my subscribers told me that they saw a payment on their credit card statement from corsent.substack.com. I worried that somehow Substack was still getting money from my paid subscribers. But that isn’t true! See the message below. And thank you.

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Hello everyone,

I just encountered another rocky patch on the journey to independence from Substack. Some of you who pay for your subscriptions might have noticed a payment going out to "corsent.substack.com".

This is not a payment to Substack.

You are seeing this because I set up my Stripe account when I enabled paid subscriptions on Substack, and Stripe gave my account the name "corsent.substack.com" by default. It's purely an identifier, and I can change it. I should have changed it weeks ago! And now I have. Future payments will appear on your statements as "This Is Not A Legal Record."

I disconnected my Stripe account from Substack (i.e., removed Substack as an authorized application) on December 26. No payments on or after that date go to or through Substack. If you are a paid subscriber, not a penny of your money goes to Substack anymore.

I pay Buttondown a flat monthly fee to host my newsletter. Buttondown does not take a share of subscribers' payments. For this reason, I am grateful for the financial support your paid subscriptions provide; they keep this ship afloat.

Thank you for staying with me as a tie up these loose ends!