Vol. I · No. 1

Thursday, August 6, 2026

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Everything The Open Times does, and how each part works.

Publications Write long-form posts to a publication you own, at your own domain, with nothing sitting between you and the page.
Newsletter Publishing a post emails it to your subscribers. The web page and the send are one action, not two tools.
Paid subscriptions Turn on paid tiers, mark posts subscriber-only, and take payment straight into your own Stripe account.
Discover Publications on the Open Times network recommend each other, so new readers arrive through someone they already trust.
Comments Threaded comments under every piece, open to the readers you choose, moderated by you and stored with your posts.
Import Move posts, subscribers and paid subscriptions across in one import, without asking a single reader to sign up again.
Crossposting Announce what you publish everywhere at once, or post to Bluesky, X, LinkedIn, Instagram, Threads and Mastodon on their own.
Scheduling Schedule posts ahead in your own timezone and let the queue publish them, or send immediately.
Per-network variants Override the text for any single network without maintaining six separate drafts of the same post.
Analytics Subscriber growth, revenue and per-network engagement against the posts that caused them, in one view.
Bulk delete Delete every post from a connected account, on the networks whose APIs allow it, with a preview first.
Own everything Your posts, your subscribers, your revenue and your access tokens all live in a database you run. There is no vendor in the middle.

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