Hi gang — recently I told you about some of the exciting changes we’re making around here. I’ve brought on Zoe Schiffer, one of the best tech reporters working today, and launched Hard Fork, a new podcast, with the New York Times.

Together, these moves set up Platformer for our best year yet: able to break more news, tell different kinds of stories, and reach a much bigger audience. And to get there, we’re going to do something we’ve never done before: offer a sale on a year’s worth of access to our journalism.

From now until Friday at 5pm PST, you can get 20 percent off an annual subscription to Platformer — about $8 a month. Your subscription comes with:

• Three full columns delivered to your inbox each week, plus access to the full archive of Platformer posts.

• Access to Sidechannel, the members-only Discord server where hundreds of community members discuss the day’s news (and our latest podcast episode).

• The knowledge that you’re directly supporting independent journalism, powering scoops about Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and the rest of the world’s most important platforms.

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Later this afternoon we’re sending out a preview of Meta’s make-or-break Connect conference, which is happening tomorrow. The company needs to persuade the world that its next-generation tech can revive Meta’s fortunes — but its own employees seem skeptical.

Either way, thank you for reading and sharing Platformer. We’re about to have a very newsy year.

Casey