wow that popup in the middle of the article and scrolling is obnoxious. I have never seen it since it doesn't show it to me when logged in.

I poked around and it doesn't appear I can disable that popup without disabling the whole newsletter feature. I don't care so much about people subscribing but my less techy friends seem to like the newsletter mode.

I messaged the hashnode.com support to ask about this. Other than that I've been pretty happy with them given that I don't want to selfhost my blog right now.

Anyway, thanks for letting me know.