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Mutant Zombie Villager's avatar

Wanna let you know this poem for sone reason didn't show up in my inbox, and judging by the fact it has no likes, it probably didn't show up in anyone else's. The Substack APK/IPA didn't load a text-to-speech recording of the article, either (Substack seems to stupidly produce TTS recordings after an article's been published, and just plays an audio file of the reading, instead of just having TTS code in the app that reads the article - I'm assuming this cuz you'll notice the TTS will only read what the article was first published like, not accounting for any changes like corrections of errors or newly added or removed paragraphs).

Anyway, just wanted to let you know I enjoyed and appreciate your analysis of the poem!

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Mutant Zombie Villager's avatar

*should say article instead of poem lol

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SocDoneLeft's avatar

Hi Natsuki, I appreciate these comments! I made this article public but didn't send it out to people on the mailing list -- that must be the specific even that triggers the TTS creation (which I agree is an extremely silly system -- might be worth reaching out to Substack webmaster about that). I felt that this poem was beautiful but probably not worth sending everyone an email (I've done that for a few articles actually, especially older reposts from other sites. But maybe I shouldn't, if it's an accessibility issue?)

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