"First, there’s a Jekyll plugin that hooks into the site’s build step...
Second, there’s an “agent” script that gets added to the post’s <head>..."
And then there has to be a whole payment system to handle the subscriptions, which is apparently separate.
This requires support and hand-holding to get it to work. It's nice to be able to host your own paid-subscription blog, but it's inherently complicated to get that to work. It's so much easier to sign up for some service that does the whole job. Especially just for a blog.
This is also why most "federated" systems don't get traction. Per-user, it's so much more work than a centralized system.
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"First, there’s a Jekyll plugin that hooks into the site’s build step... Second, there’s an “agent” script that gets added to the post’s <head>..." And then there has to be a whole payment system to handle the subscriptions, which is apparently separate.
This requires support and hand-holding to get it to work. It's nice to be able to host your own paid-subscription blog, but it's inherently complicated to get that to work. It's so much easier to sign up for some service that does the whole job. Especially just for a blog.
This is also why most "federated" systems don't get traction. Per-user, it's so much more work than a centralized system.
There is a middle ground of self hosted solutions that get the job done with less hassle.
For example, Ghost has payment systems integrations. I'd imagine there's a docker container ready to go for deployment.