Every issue is open
Nothing on MossPaper sits behind a paywall or a sign-up wall. You will never be asked to create an account to keep reading, because there are no reader accounts at all.
Product
Features
MossPaper gives writers the shape of a newsletter, a publication with issues and replies, without asking readers for an inbox. Here is everything that comes with it, and the things we deliberately left behind.
For readers
Subscribe with RSS
Each publication has its own feed at /handle/feed.xml, and the whole network has one at /feed.xml. Add either to any feed reader and new issues arrive there in order, with no email involved.
Pages made for reading
Issues are plain server-rendered pages. They load quickly on a phone, keep long text at a comfortable line length and set Vietnamese and other accented text cleanly.
For writers
A publication page
Your work lives at /your-handle/ with a cover image, a portrait, a short bio, an optional link to your own website and a pinned introduction you write yourself.
Issues with structure
Every issue can carry a cover image, a section and topics. Long issues get a table of contents built from your headings, so readers can jump to the part they came for.
Sections and topics
Sections group your issues into shelves readers can browse on your page. Topics connect your issues with related writing across the rest of the network.
Ordinary links
Links in your issues are normal links. Point readers to your own website, your sources and the people you are writing about.
For conversations
Replies without a login
Readers answer an issue with a name and a message. No email address, no password, no profile to fill in.
Read before shown
Each guest reply waits for a moderator before it appears under the issue. Replies that are never approved are deleted automatically after 30 days.
Writers in the thread
When a writer answers in their own replies, the answer is marked so readers can tell it apart from the rest of the conversation.
Left out on purpose
- No advertising and no sponsored placements.
- No analytics, tracking pixels or third-party scripts.
- No cookies for readers. The only cookie belongs to site administrators when they sign in.
- No follower counts, like counts or engagement scores on anyone’s page.
- No public sign-up: writer accounts are by invitation, which keeps the network small and readable.
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