<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>The Melodreams Journal</title><description>The official Melodreams blog. Occasional notes on the product, on privacy, and on the open web.</description><link>https://blog.melodreams.com/</link><language>en</language><item><title>Own your audience, and keep it</title><link>https://blog.melodreams.com/blog/own-your-audience/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://blog.melodreams.com/blog/own-your-audience/</guid><description>Followers you cannot export are followers you are only borrowing. What real ownership looks like on Melodreams.</description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>privacy</category><category>privacy</category><category>portability</category><category>open web</category><author>Admin</author></item><item><title>$3.99 and no asterisks</title><link>https://blog.melodreams.com/blog/the-economics-of-a-page-you-own/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://blog.melodreams.com/blog/the-economics-of-a-page-you-own/</guid><description>The plain economics of a page you own, and why a small honest price beats a free product that has to make its money off you some other way.</description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 13:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>creators</category><category>pricing</category><category>ownership</category><category>creators</category><author>Admin</author></item><item><title>Designing frames: one profile, many identities</title><link>https://blog.melodreams.com/blog/designing-frames/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://blog.melodreams.com/blog/designing-frames/</guid><description>How a single Melodreams page can show up as a casino marquee, a terminal, or a channel, and the typography that keeps it all honest.</description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>craft</category><category>design</category><category>typography</category><category>frames</category><author>Admin</author></item><item><title>The link in bio is dead. Long live the page.</title><link>https://blog.melodreams.com/blog/the-link-in-bio-is-dead/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://blog.melodreams.com/blog/the-link-in-bio-is-dead/</guid><description>A stack of links was a workaround for tiny bios. Your page can be the place people came to see, not a hallway they pass through.</description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>product</category><category>product</category><category>creators</category><category>philosophy</category><author>Admin</author></item><item><title>Why we will never run ads</title><link>https://blog.melodreams.com/blog/why-we-dont-run-ads/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://blog.melodreams.com/blog/why-we-dont-run-ads/</guid><description>Every free page has a price, and someone always pays it. Here is the plain case for charging a few dollars instead.</description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>company</category><category>privacy</category><category>business model</category><category>manifesto</category><author>Admin</author></item><item><title>We opened the Journal</title><link>https://blog.melodreams.com/blog/welcome-to-the-journal/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://blog.melodreams.com/blog/welcome-to-the-journal/</guid><description>Today we started a blog. Here is what it is, why we bothered, and what you can expect to find on it.</description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>company</category><category>welcome</category><category>open web</category><author>Admin</author></item></channel></rss>