I'm shutting down HAFTE

So long and thanks for all the views.

I started HAFTE back in 2023, with my first post going up on January 23rd. Today, on the 3rd anniversary of the publication, I am shutting it down. Or at least, I’m not going to be posting here anymore.

Reasons are many, but fundamentally the purpose that HAFTE was meant to serve has been… made redundant as it were. It was a cry for help essentially, a place for me to simply write without restriction and instruction. Where I could experiment to my hearts content. And I enjoyed doing it of course.

But in three years if I only posted 40 times, which is roughly once a month, it means that there was not enough here to make me want to stick around. Which also means there’s not enough here to make you stick around.

I started another newsletter on beehiiv last year and have already hit 50 issues in one year. Momentum feels much easier to maintain there. So that’s what I’m doing now. It’s very different from HAFTE. It’s where I analyse the news of the week to decode meaning and power dynamics in language. If that’s your cup o’ tea, you can subscribe at https://signpost.beehiiv.com/subscribe.

Thanks for getting this amateur writer to love writing again.

Bye.

-Imran