Video on About pages, discover Substacks by country, and more
Bulletin #2: News, education, and opportunities for publishers
Welcome to the Substack Bulletin, your essential dispatch with the latest news, resources, and community-building opportunities for Substack publishers.
We hope you enjoy this second edition. Please leave us any feedback or ideas in the comments—we’re listening and curious to see how we can make this series as valuable to you as possible.
News
Discover popular posts and publications by country. Our new world map allows readers and writers to find publications and posts currently being enjoyed across the globe. Check it out here: substack.com/globe.
Video on About pages. You can now upload a native video to bring your About page, your mission, and your voice to life.
Custom audio and video transcripts. We offer automated transcripts and closed captions for podcasts and videos, but if you prefer to use your own transcripts that you’ve produced elsewhere, you can now upload them in the Transcript tab of your podcast or video settings. Learn more.
Share timestamped links from videos. You can now share a link to a timestamp in a video, selecting a specific moment in the clip.
Resources
Masterclasses: This week we hosted masterclasses for writers who speak German. Coming up: masterclasses for Australia-based writers tomorrow morning, UK-based writers on April 3 and writers in France on April 4 (conducted in French).
Updating your About page: The About page is important for converting viewers to subscribers. It’s worth revisiting yours from time to time for an update, and considering adding a video (see above). Learn more.
Growth case study: Read how
’s story on the NBA’s scoring drought went viral and was picked up by big podcasts and national TV broadcasts over on Substack Sports.Chatbot question of the week: How do I see and manage who I’m following on Substack?
Some writers are asking the chatbot about how to understand their followers on Substack. To see who is following you on Substack, go to your profile and click on the subscriber count above your publication. You’ll be taken to a page where you can view who you’re following and who is following you.
Remember, you can follow someone without subscribing to their Substack publication—if you’re interested in them and want to see their notes but not yet committed to giving them your email address—and you can unfollow someone without unsubscribing from their publication. To learn more about how followers work, read this note from our founder
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Community
Meetups:
and are hosting a meetup in Los Angeles, in Amsterdam, in Charlotte, in San Francisco, plus more hosted online. Don’t see your city or category? Host your own meetup.Milestones:
of School of Trivia was on Jeopardy this week. hit nine years of publishing The Half Marathoner. celebrated three years of publishing After School and decided to focus on her Substack full-time. attended the world premiere of Damsel, a hit movie based on her novel. ’s novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao was included in the New York Times’s list of funniest books since Catch-22.In the press: Vogue wrote about how the fashion community is moving to Substack. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news of
relaunching The Borowitz Report on Substack. was a guest on the Savage Love podcast, is running a five-part series on BBC Radio 4, and was interviewed on Deutschlandradio. ’s Substack on the microbiome was featured in Vogue.
Celebrating a milestone or press feature? Let us know in the comments.
I was really upset to find that Substack had "train AI on my newsletter" set to the default in my settings. As a platform that celebrates and is supposed to be supporting human writers, the default should be set to OFF on AI training on our content.
I found out why: we’re worried that Google in particular will treat “AI scrape” settings as the same as “search crawler scrape” settings, since from their POV “it’s all the same.” This isn’t settled yet, but in the meantime, if we default this to off, publications *could* lose all their search traffic / SEO / Google ranking. And when you lose it, it’s costly and takes time to get it back. Basically: we were scared we’d demolish a ton of traffic AND AI scrapers can (and do) ignore these settings, so it was “possible gain” with “possible severe loss,” and maybe we were just too anxious.
In case it needs to be said: it doesn’t help Substack at all to be scraped by AI; we don’t like it, we don’t want it, we have the same moral and creative objections to it as everyone else, and it doesn’t do us any good even from a purely capitalist POV. If we can stop it, we will. It’s already prohibited by our TOS, for example.
Team is discussing right now! Thanks for this feedback, of course, and here’s hoping we can mess these scrapers all up.
Very much appreciate your attention to this!
Thank you for looking into this for us all!
it’s very literally a privilege to do this work for writers and creators!!! the joy of my life.
Hmm. Right now I have that setting defaulted to off, but I don't want to lose my heard work at SEO. Not sure what to do?
Exactly! We haven’t seen them (yet) treat the AI setting as a search crawl setting, so for now you can safely set it to block AI crawlers, we believe. (This is an opaque issue we are not allowed by Google to know much about). If this changes, we will announce it for sure. But it’s definitely nerve-wracking, and then on top of this is the fact that any AI company can just… choose to ignore the settings! Eventually we’d catch them, but the AI folks are pretty wild / unconcerned about us I’m sure.
Also, for all the emails that arrive to Gmail, Google trains on the emails, so unless people only read your work on the Substack app and you don’t send emails, Google is still training on your work.
Good lord, how depressing. Though they're not going to learn much from my emails lol
Thank you for this feedback. I'll make sure the team sees it.
Agreed - what made Substack popular is that they were different, now they're killing the golden goose of quality.
One of the many faults of Substack. Been chasing their support team for 3 months to import my mailing list but no sign of them.
Same here, but only 3 days. Guess easier to move.
All I’m saying is if AI trains on my newsletter, then Sora better put together a real masterpiece of a video for my About page.
Yeah, found that setting my first week on substack. Turned it off, I think it was responsible for the attempted auto-correct/suggestions. Haven't seen it since I turned it off, thankfully.
So glad you caught this.
Can we get Substack’s by city/region in the future? Would love to see everyone’s Substack in the Miami/Fort Lauderdale area where I’m based.
Also wondering if the issue with google’s changes to gmail spam management is impacting Substack open rates? Is there anything we need to do as users to authenticate our emails?
Echoing this sentiment!
Really intrigued by the About page video idea. I wonder if you could share some examples of successful ones?
Here's mine, just done, FWIW: https://susanwittigalbert.substack.com/about
Wonderful. Does Substack video offer the editing option and adding photographs? Looks so professional!
Thanks! The edits were done by a friend at Story Circle. I took the video on my phone (sitting on our back deck with a little script) and she did the rest.
Thx for the splainin’! I will look at Story Circle website for charges.
Or here's some help for us youtube newbies: https://www.fotor.com/blog/best-video-editing-softwares-for-youtube-beginners/ My grandson does this all the time--can't be that hard, can it? 😂😂
Oy. I’ve seen a few of these lists when I googled. Thx for sharing. My kids are like your grandson. Anything tech— no problem.
Well done!
Thank you, Lori. Easy to upload--wish I'd done it a long time ago!
Thank you! Seeing yours finally made me edit mines and just get it out of the way. This was a really good template to follow. Also made editing the about page not as overwhelming as I thought as first.
I learned a LOT from studying others' About pages when I launched. Plenty of creative ideas out there! Good luck with yours . . .
Thank you. I had more fun than I thought editing it. It just felt like writing a much longer Note.
The world map is a really interesting feature for exploring content in other languages! It just seems limiting to me, for the time being, that it is reserved for the top posts: a random selection or selection by theme could also be interesting, so as to enhance even small to medium-sized publications. What do you think about?
I keep repeating this:
Any podcasts/hearing posts etc should ALL have transcripts or subtitles.
Millions of deaf people in the world.
Can we have some thoughtful people please.
Speaking of Vogue, last week Teen Vogue reposted an interview from my newsletter, Skipped History, on one of the overlooked origins of America's gun problem: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/gun-problem-in-america-why
Wahoo!
Congrats!
Thanks!!
Nice work!
Also very nice encouragement for quality networking - feel like I have an adorable company that I could attend great social events with an employee identity
Congratulations! That's great news and a wonderful achievement!
See: Instruments of Woke: Teen Vogue - Training Young Female Leftists @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7y5OKjDiqY
Thanks for the link Ben, That silly brainless title of, "Why Is There a Gun Problem in America? The Gun Capitalists Are Partly to Blame." Got me laughing! History free suckers & fools don't know that our first God fearing settlers established an anti-capitalist, proto Marxist Communist style society here, in the 1620's, it brought disharmony & death, So Gov. Thomas Bradford [thinking it/ he was trying to play God] so he switched to [what fools call, evil today!] Capitalism! It brought harmony & God’s abundance & the greatest nation on God's green earth! Now Godless suckers & fools want to go back to the failed 1620's evil, failed system! God, Guns & Guts built this nation! NOT a Marxist "free stuff" man government acting as their god & savior! As we now see here today, in failed, Hell bound USA!
I want to hear of some success stories of how independent musicians are making an income from Substack. There are bigger artists like Tegan & Sara, but I want some hope that I could make it viable for myself.
Had no clude Tegan & Sara were on here! OMG, this takes me back to a time! Thanks for this! Going to find them now.
No problem! Here's my music if you'd like to listen too! https://open.spotify.com/artist/2xhd56iJIapFAK6rFw9zcH?si=7TkCMdg9Spa3griK5_M5jg
Check out the feature on https://fogchaser.substack.com/
I hit my first $1000 in paid subscriptions. After sharing my art and comics online for free since 2010, this was a big milestone in valuing my work and being open about needing to get paid for it! Substack sent me premade graphics to share and when I posted them, even more people subscribed. Thank you for helping me grow!
Bravo!
Substack is the finest thing on the Internet, bar none. Wish I had a bottle of tequila, I could start a brilliant converstion with Earth 2024!
Never one to think there is such a thing as bad tequila. OK, there is non-alcoholic, but, who cares?
Love the new About Page video! One thing I noticed is that I can see my new About Page video on my website About page but in the app it doesn't appear on the about page. Any troubleshooting tips you can offer? Thank you! https://www.fromthenocturne.com/about
Sharp catch! We will be shipping an update to the app very soon so this will be all seamless
Thank you for the update!
Bailey - Thank you! And PS Loving Art Dogs! Especially the discovery of John Steinbeck's "Pigasus"!
Oh thank you so much!! Yes I loved that as well - especially the way his wife described the metaphor
Yes! Also, I love your welcome email and just posted about Jamie Wyeth's dog Ziggy. What a fun thread and community!
When I click your link on my iPhone it says it can’t open the page.
Hi Charlotte! Thank you! I’m editing now! Here you go: https://www.fromthenocturne.com/about
I am trying to use the Upload Transcript with a .txt file but getting the following error message: There was a problem generating the transcript.
Is it possible the file size is too big? My computer says the file size is 53KB but when I do the upload in Substack it says it's 53MB. Maybe there is a glitch somewhere?
Are you asking about uploading a transcript over a video? Is this part of the new Substack video feature? Still learning. Me and tech are slowly becoming friends.
@Erica - one of our engineers is hoping to investigate this. I'll DM you, and can you share your file with me? Will send my email.
Reporting this. Let me see what's going on!
Good Morning Im new. If you have Automotive Questions I've owned a body shop for 35 years . Happy Friday eve!
Welcome to the site! I'm sure a lot of people will find that very useful and helpful... 😎
Love the globe feature!
HI! I'm new to Substack and I'd love to know how do we learn about the different meetups happening around the USA?
Welcome to the site! Substack usually promote a lot of them in these Newsletters, such as the ones mentioned above in the main Post. There's one there happening in LA, for example. You may also come across people talking about them in Notes. Good luck with your publication... 😎
Thanks for your thoughtful response. I’ll be on the lookout! See you around, Chris!
My newsletter is a weekly newspaper about the Dallas suburb of Coppell. I’ve been publishing it for a little more than three years. I have a Google alert set up for “Coppell,” and my own content never appears in the daily emails I get from Google related to that alert. Why is that? What can I do to make Google searchers find my content?
I'll ask after this with the team and report back!
Off topic, but I read that "Stripe" payment processor went after Dr. Robert Malone and Substack did not intervene at all. Freedom of Speech must be protected at all times. The matter was resolved by legal intervention. Here is summary of Stripe's action: Stripe initially requested comprehensive financial data from Dr. Robert Malone, a widely published mRNA vaccine expert who raised concerns over the COVID-19 vaccine on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast. However, following legal intervention by the Dhillon Law Group, Stripe retracted this request. The situation highlights the intersection of financial privacy and free speech in the context of online platforms. Congressman Troy E. Nehls entered the transcript of Dr. Malone’s interview into the Congressional Record after Twitter and YouTube removed it from their platforms.
Yes, that's off-topic.
It's sad you 4 don't understand & realize what censor ship does to "topics"! Soon the only AI allowed "topics" will be, on how wonderful the new government policy is for "saving our lives, from climate doom, pandemics, evil guns, & those evil white raciest capitalists, Sexist, Intolerant, Xenophobic, Homophobic, Islamophobic, Bigoted. Republicans”!
I agree with your listed topics. Those would be worthwhile. However, only Republicans that are now really MAGAts are to be listed instead of Republicans, in general.
Please help me
Thanks for the shoutout!!
Congrats Terrell! Incredible accomplishment
Love, love, love the upgrades. On the other hand ... I REALLY wish you guys would fix the bug with uploading longer videos. Your interface indicates that videos can be up to 20GB or so, but I haven't been able to upload considerably smaller videos of my audiobooks. I've submitted this issue and basically heard back (after a nearly interminable wait and much nagging) that the engineers aren't prioritizing it. This is, however, super important because, unlike with MP3s that anyone can download, content in videos is much harder to get at.
The videos on the 'About Page' sound like a great idea. That's an excellent way to show potential Readers more about what your publication has to offer. Also, I just celebrated six months on Substack this week. I've really enjoyed being here on the site so far, and it's been great to have a place to try out new ideas and meet other writers... 😎 https://chrisjfranklin.substack.com/p/celebrating-six-months-on-substack
Duh. Hadn't thought of posting a video on the About page. Done now, big thanks! https://susanwittigalbert.substack.com/about
Hi, I've just seen a conversation pop up on threads and on yahoo news that some authors are seeing a sharp decline in subscribers since the addition of the follow feature. They are saying it is not helping with conversion and growth, after skyrocketing, has stagnated. Thoughts? Has anyone else experienced this? https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/substack-writers-concerned-subscriptions-plummet-133531936.html
I see followers as people who aren't ready to subscribe yet. Half-empty glass and all that. I follow a lot of people who are great on the Notes app but there newsletter doesn't appeal to me. So I'm apart of the problem but understand why people follow instead of subscribing.
That's incredibly interesting, and wasn't something that had occurred to me. I would've thought having the option to Follow would help writers, if anything. Because Readers who aren't ready to Subscribe can Follow, and that at least keeps them engaged with your Notes and writing, rather than losing them completely. Then, there's a chance they might Subscribe later if they see something they really like. Of course, there is also the potential that some might Follow, when they actually meant to Subscribe - and that could be part of what's causing the perceived decline. Others may just enjoy reading the content a writer is putting in Notes, but not the Newsletter itself. I think the most important thing is giving Readers options in how they want to interact with the writers they enjoy. Of course, ideally, we would like them to Subscribe, but I think ultimately, a Follow is also good in the meantime as they've still become a part of our community and shown some support... 😎
I'm very happy with the growth of Substack on Mudo. I'm a 100% video creator on Substack and in course format, so I'd really like you to look into creating a Playlist feature to separate the videos.
Are you using the tags feature? That’s what I have worked out—I have my different courses inside of tags that each get their own section on my homepage, the menu bar (I actually took them out of the menu recently, but they can be there if you want them to be), and it gives them their own landing page at yourpub.domain/t/video.
I wasn't actually using it, but I'm going to
Hi I'm from Brazil and the Country top posts help me a lot to set up my goals! Tks a lot
I'm actually very interested in the video for the about page. I think it would work really well with my publication and it will give me a reason to start making videos again!! 😁
Any recommendations on how I can make videos based on my content? If anyone has found something useful, or whatever you guys follow..
Would like to hear any ideas! Thanks!
That's interesting
Can there also be a page where people can discover Substacks about specific countries? So rather than just what’s popular in a certain countries, what substacks are about certain countries. Thanks!
I noticed the new timestamp feature 🧡 And also the new layout of options in the post composition window for adding buttons and extras (they seem to work better when composing on my iPad—thank you!)
Has the transcripts gotten any better yet? Because so far it keeps translating my podcast into Swedish when I don't even speak it....
I'm a new here and still finding my way around the platform. I see there was a masterclass for Australia last night and I'm disappointed to have missed it. Where do you find out about these things? How often are they repeated or is there access to a recording?
Thanks.
Ask the person who commented on that here.
Wow its amazingI was quite disappointed to discover that Substack had "train AI on my newsletter" preselected as the default in my settings. As a platform that values and aims to empower human writers, the default should be configured to OFF for AI training on our content.
Love the advice about updating your "About" page. I'm surprised at how many do not utilize that page.
Love the globe feature, but would like to see it expanded so I can get an even better idea of what type of Substack newsletters are being produced around the world. A topic search by country, perhaps?
The video features are nice, but how about enabling photospheres in Substack? It only takes a few extra lines of code on your servers, and if you had it, I wouldn't have to send my readers to an external site to view them.
If you don't know what photospheres are, use Google to look up the word. It was Google that developed the technology. All current browsers support them.
Man, so I need to shave and do that about page video! Also screw AI Scraping. It stays off. Not that it matters. Scrapers will scrape everything regardless.
I like the idea of the meetups. Any meetup soon in Orlando?
Love the shout outs to podcasts and interviews. Please consider letting readers know about my Funny AF Women interview series. Yes, women are funny too. Shameless plug over and out.
Haha! Yes! Women are funny, too! Following thanks to your shameless plug ;)
Thx for following and posting!
The new ABOUT page is much needed and I am happy to see that Substack is always moving forward and making changes. Most are for the better but tweeks often need to be made. The communication helps us all learn through inquiries and ideas as our opinions do matter.
The ABOUT page video will help promote my audio shows on Headfone. Thank you!
I like the multi-colour doodles as text dividers, how did you do them?
They do look great, and add a little something. You have to design or make them as an image using Photoshop or Canva or something like that, and then place them where you want in your Drafts. It doesn't have to be too elaborate. I just use a very simple purple line myself in my own stories, but it's still quite effective. Good luck with it... 😎
Thanks, I'll have a go in Canva.
We had one of our designers make them! But yes you can use canva or buy graphics from the web that you like :)
For budget reasons I do everything in-house so I'll ask my designer (me!) to come up with the goods haha! Loving your work 👊
Is there a way to let all subscribers access the audio version of my podcast, but only allow paid subscribers to see the transcript? I've tried to figure out how to do this in the past, but couldn't figure it out. For example, you didn't seem to be able to put a paywall break in an audio post.
Let me confirm. If we don't offer this yet, it seems like we should!
Thanks! My thought is that if I send out an email with the audio, there's value for the free subscriber, but also a chance to upsell them for the transcript.
You want to charge deaf people.
Where is Substack getting information about the location of a publication?
I couldn't find it in the settings.
Loving the new features, Substack is becoming a much smoother more interactive place. Three pieces picked up by online magazines from here too with links to the Substack in my publication bio!
How about a shout out or feature Substack - been here 3 years and almost at my first free subscriber goal!
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Awesome
I wrote an article to put on Substack but do not know where to paste it. I am 71 and have not blogged before. I worked for a newspapaer many ears ago. I need help!
Arauna, from the looks of your "substack profile" (https://substack.com/profile/582114-arauna-palm/reads)... it looks like you have yet to first create your substack blog (note: that needs to be done first, before you can then post to it).
At your "substack profile" (link above), then click on the "Create your substack" button.
Thank you dear! Will follow your instructions.
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I'm celebrating being selected as the Third Place prize winner in Love & Liberation Daily's Substack Writing Contest #2 for my essay "Why I Walked Away From White People"
Announcement
https://open.substack.com/pub/alexlopezwrites/p/announcing-the-winners-of-writing?r=3ehdaw&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Essay
https://open.substack.com/pub/sustainablesolutionsmedia/p/why-i-walked-away-from-white-people-fa63c9280ed4?r=3ehdaw&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Nice features
Hey, I'm in Australia & just noticed the Masterclass for Aussies. I'm just giving you feedback that it's actually scheduled for 5am Good Friday morning for the majority of Aussies - a public holiday & beginning of a 4 day weekend. . So if there's a low turnout, some peeps would already be on holiday / travelling,
many might be asleep! I can't make it, so I hope you run it again at a more feasible time. PS: when you say url, do you mean a profile or newsletter? I don't have a newsletter yet - some of my burning questions are about that step. Thanks!
Good feedback, thank you. I'll share this with the team! It may be because we are having some European team members help with this workshop. In the future, I'm sure we can do better times!
Sure. One hour later (6am) on a regular weekday (not a public holiday) might work better for people - they could do it just before leaving for work - or 9pm our time is often good for parts of the USA. Bailey, I'd really appreciate you answering my question - in the Zoom meet instructions they stated it was preferable to have a Substack url to share. If we just have a profile (hello!), but not a newsletter yet, does that count as a url to share?
Many of us are unable to figure out how to post.
Pourquoi n’êtes vous pas simplement assez humain pour me parler de G et de C.
C’est trop demandé ,que c’est ridicule.
درود بر انسانهای خوب 🙏
A very lovely collage.
Ohh so good generate more ideas from the page
Substack is Magic !
Would love to know more about landing in the top 10 on this global Substack search feature. How does this work and what is the weighting based on?
Just like this
Like what, sorry I didn't see a link!
I don’t remember lol
By posting stuff on Substack ; that is what I ment
Please reinstate human support center via e-mail or other means. For the 2nd days I am struggling to circumvent unhelpful AI.
Really Interesting, thank you
I'm excited to see video added to the About page! I think I'll definitely take advantage of that. I celebrated the milestone of launching my substack recently, and I've already got two paid subscribers 🥰 Can't wait to bring leftist commentary to conversations about technology, music, and religion.
Like the Substack Globe feature. Very useful! :-)
Super excited to see the Globe app for discovery! 🙌
Contrary to the beliefs of legislators, passing a law against something does not make it cease to exist.
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On Holy Thursday pray a lot and subscribe to Latin American Insider 👇
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Love the new video feature for the About page. Thx for your constant upgrades.
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Has Substack considered adding a Twitter Spaces-style voice chat feature? Would be great to be able to host rooms with subscribers and other writers.
April fooled me again. Being an old fool makes it kind of difficult to notice...
Hey! I created and intro video for the about page here, if anyone is interested-
https://erikhogan.substack.com/about
I made it using DaVinci Resolve, a free program. There's a huge learning curve to use it, but if you put in the time it is well worth it! I was coming back to here to mention that the video on the about page does not show up when viewed on mobile, but it seems that this was brought up in the earlier comments. Thanks for this upgrade!
Okay... So HOW and WHERE do I set my Country? The article doesn't cover that.
Very excited for the Video Tutorial.
The Substack crew is moving ahead on many fronts.
Communication is key!
Thanks, Lynn
Thanks for the great privilege to be here
Hey everyone. I'm still very unclear as to how to increase my audience. My page is called Art and the Infinite. I imported about 130 contacts . I have a website I have set up to make sales of my work. I imported these contacts from the people i send my website to. I have a very good open rate of around 50% and pretty good viewing numbers for my substack page. But of course I want to expand my reading audience. How do i get readers beyond my existing contacts.? Are people beyond these contacts already reading my page? What are the concrete steps i need to take to widen my audience?
You asked me to tell you why I was missing for 1 month and I told you I was ill , now it turns out I am very seriously ill and I will not get any better , therefore this will be the last time I say anything , thankyou for all you did to help me and now I must love you and leave you , good luck to all, keep up the good work
A meetup in Rio de Janeiro plz!
Bom dia a todos do substack, estou em um processo de melhorar minha escrita para começar a publicar meus conteúdos e não parar mais. Sem dúvida, quero alcançar o meu público e mostrar minhas ideias e pontos de vista. Acredito que posso contribuir com meu conteúdo para ajudar alguma outra pessoa que também está na jornada da vida.
Desde já agradeço a todos vocês.
Tenham uma ótima jornada!
Would be good for a start to reinstate human support for writers .
This will be really helpful....Thank you Substack!!
Hi everyone!
Hope you’re all having a great Easter weekend.
If you’re looking for something to read over the long break, I just posted a fun short story about an egg hunt… 😎 https://chrisjfranklin.substack.com/p/the-egg-hunt
Step by step I’m building a Chilean list of writers, let me know if you are in Chile, maybe we ideate first 🇨🇱 meetup
Regarding Followers vs Subscribers:
Followers will only see my Notes, while subscribers see my Notes AND Posts I publish? Is that correct?
Yes.
Now, I have only had a substack for all of 10 days, certainly not enough time to fully know what answers or addresses any inquiries and concerns I have. Having absolute squat for feedback isn't the case either largely due to a rather unique set of circumstances.
I have been quietly (or maybe ineffectively due to barriers of entry which are incredibly varied) both attempting to create public awareness and a public solution to a very open secret. I am a survivor of some very traumatic and catastrophic circumstances and live events. Others with this type of shared experience who have managed to reach an audience managed to do so almost effortlessly as far as I am able to tell. That or they were Paris Hilton. I know that helped contribute to their efforts.
My work is addressing something that is rooted in human and civil rights, injustice, and how a single person has taken that on and been able to achieve some aspect of progress. Not having resources or, well, "privileges" most do made this experience significantly different and one that no one hears. Clearly a hindrance for my own potential but considering the nature of what I am addressing being of public benefit the inability to be hear almost impacts so many others.
Looking at the meet-ups, connections in place for people that allow them to collaborate and have further success, that whole "knowing people" thing is one that an often forgotten percentage of the population will unlikely have unless they luck out.
Unless they are Paris Hilton. (I'm mentioning her specifically for a reason, it makes sense.)
I'm aware of the discourse regarding DEI and how it's being interpreted to dismiss it. That's certainly a very dishonest argument being presented yet I find myself having an incredibly visceral internal conflict in that I have personally recognized how it has either failed to deliver or failed to live up to its promises. That internal conflict only continues to stir when the attempt to address that fails over and over again growing into the bitter irony that what I've just described here is the very example I am presenting.
I would love to promote a book I wrote...but also be able to write one.
I would love to have access to support and grow my audience...but also does that support know why I need it? Pointing me to an existing article in the help section ends up answering that question.
I would love to have this magical "equity" thing be of benefit to me...but it never has been because I've never been heard whether actively silenced or doing this solo from being silenced.
Maybe I am wrong here and still miss the mark but I won't know until someone actually takes the time to talk to me how I know people have had the option of making possible.
I figured out the technical part. I know how to write fairly well, I can make excellent graphics, I know how SEO works, keeping a consistent upload schedule, interacting with an audience, etc. etc. that I was blessed to be able to pick up on my own by some miracle. The support and interaction part and being taken seriously or acknowledged as someone that would more than benefit from being given a few extra steps appears to exist but I cannot tell you what it is.
All I can tell you is that the few people who have shown me kindness and encouragement here already was what fueled the bravery to even address it.
Thank you for doing what you do!
I just celebrated my 1-year anniversary on Substack and have published 55 weeks in a row! Hooray! https://paulaborchardt.substack.com/p/its-the-1-year-anniversary-of-my-2db
I would love to attend or even organize a meetup. How can I find out who is in my catchment area?
I would be happy to share my location, the question is how can I find and communicate with all writers in - let's say - the Greater Toronto Area?
Why are some countries missing from the list? E.g.Mauritius
Good information. Thank you!
thank you !--cbk
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I would be ecstatic if substack designed an editor that would allow me to create posts on an iPhone in the way one can on a computer. I have a website, carbonstories.org that I would love to move to substack for original posts, not as an afterthought after I have written them on an iPhone using Squarespace while traveling long distance on a bike. I think other writers would appreciate that option as well.
Not sure if this has already been suggested in the comments but please add a poetry section! There are so many sections that aren't exactly niche but really delegate and organize several different types of writing that allows for a more accessible discoverability. Poetry is a vast genre of writing that you can't just constrain to the 'Literature' section. 'Fiction' having its own section is a good example of this.
Now that we can search by country, it would be great if there was a translation service within the app, for those of us who read our newsletters here and not in email. Will that come?
UK war criminals 1 Lord Campbell 2 Lord Starmer 3 Lord Blair 4 Lord Mendelssohn 5 King Charles 6 Queen Charles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_war_crimes
https://aljazeera.com/news/2022/9/23/unprecedented-leak-exposes-inner-workings-of-uk-labour-party#SnippetTab
A/HRC/55/73 (http://ohchr.org)
UK war criminals 1 Lord Campbell 2 Lord Starmer 3 Lord Blair 4 Lord Mendelssohn 5 King Charles 6 Queen Charles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_war_crimes
https://aljazeera.com/news/2022/9/23/unprecedented-leak-exposes-inner-workings-of-uk-labour-party#SnippetTab
A/HRC/55/73 (http://ohchr.org)
Good to know and Read about Substack.
Books are the Good Friends Entitled with Verbal Entities and Bounded Compounds to find the walls and Accents to coin the Resonance Power with Duplex Multiplexers and Amplifiers to the Cable Slots where the Digital Contents are converted into Analog Transmissions and Complex Hubs and Towers installation in the Height of the Hills where the Signal Bandwidth could be observed in the VOIP,Web Servers.
Summaries and Glossaries are the Contents Holders.
Digital Electronics and Semiconductors are so interesting chapters in the Advancement of AI Adhoc and Implementations.
"Pride and Prejudice" Literary Adaptations to Maple Leaves and Oliver Twist like Comprehensive Plays...
Literature is like a Honey to Taste but Wine to
Intake.
Leaders and Leadership with Democratic Ethics had been Indulged into the Passionate People who never fed up with the Joy and Sorrows.
Small Narration to the Weblogs and Propreitor who may be the Service Provider.
Thank You.
"Life is a Journey".
Who is First
Who is Last
in the Full Fast
Express!
Everyone's Question Paper is same.
But Answer Sheats must be Different to
show the Innovation and Creations!
Opportunity Avails!
Knocked Doors Shuts when the Storm
Raises to Icebergs/Igloos!
What is the criteria to be a Top publications based in United States of America? Is it the number of subscribers? Or is there more to it?
Hi W@W crew!
Is this a safe (and correct) space to ask for feedback on my About page?
https://kaylenalexandra.substack.com/about
Thank you kindly & I would be happy to return the favor to anyone out there!
Well well well... this is not the W@W page LOL
And I can't seem to edit my post- so- please forgive me On Substack- my request & offer still stands strong over here too! **runs quickly away
You're creating the unity of social media .
With his Putin altar
shining so bright
wet dreams of Vladimir
his rapture at night
lest not forget his "tough guy" camp
monster-trucking through American towns
all the while beer-belching
out the next rounds
you know the ones-
little men in tall trucks
who don't even know
those flags read out "Rump"
unless they go, go, go
flyin' through the wind
(oops! there went your wanna-be gonads
fallin' off the hitch!)
but it's their right, they believe in their grit
not so true for the filthy rich
with their cowardly slime
and selfish crimes
the caviar, their haughty lives
their Rolls ( cha-ching) and their Royce ( so fine! now get in the back, say yes to me,
untouchable, I'm so divine!)
that greedy-eyed voice echoing, it's mine
Mine, all mine!
What to do, oh what to do
Mother may I, I ask
do you think here's a task?
Of course, she says, you know what to do
for who in
their right mind wants a Russia II?...here, of all places
this land
of the red, white and blue?
If this is your wish, this is you now
behold the ashes for
we Will All fall down
and not by a devil
whose eyes bleed red
or GPS that misguides you to dread
( surely I'm not the only one with a thinking brain in my head?)
no, unfortunately it comes down to this:
bestow him his crown
and there will be No Rest
America as we know it
will no longer exist.
UK war criminals 1 Lord Campbell 2 Lord Starmer 3 Lord Blair 4 Lord Mendelssohn 5 King Charles 6 Queen Charles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_war_crimes
https://aljazeera.com/news/2022/9/23/unprecedented-leak-exposes-inner-workings-of-uk-labour-party#SnippetTab
A/HRC/55/73 (http://ohchr.org)
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