We have updated our homepage, substack.com, with a focus on readers. Now you can find a list of the top Substack posts and publications, free and paid, at any given time. We want to help people find and fall in love with great writers, and this update is a first step in that effort. But we also don’t want this to turn into a troll-friendly upvote/downvote system. Instead, our goal is to surface the work that people actually value. With that in mind, top posts are (for now) ranked by number of likes from readers and paying subscribers, with the latter getting more weight. We also account for recency to keep things fresh.
This does NOTHING really, except haphazardly (and barely at that) undoes the damage you did getting rid of the real time listing of new articles as they are posted onto the website.
Give us an actual search engine and indexes sorted by newsletter topics, if you actually want to let people find stuff/keep trolling and brigading out of the website. That way people can find newsletters that appeal to them, without having to deal with newsletters they have no interest in or articles that are garbage, stinking up the feed and keeping them from seeing stuff they actually like or would be interested in.
As a new launcher I want people to discover me but your current listing methodology is a little perverse in that you don't get discovered until you've been discovered!
I'd like to suggest throwing a wild card up there every day, so it's not just already-well-compensated folks getting highlighted.
This does NOTHING really, except haphazardly (and barely at that) undoes the damage you did getting rid of the real time listing of new articles as they are posted onto the website.
Give us an actual search engine and indexes sorted by newsletter topics, if you actually want to let people find stuff/keep trolling and brigading out of the website. That way people can find newsletters that appeal to them, without having to deal with newsletters they have no interest in or articles that are garbage, stinking up the feed and keeping them from seeing stuff they actually like or would be interested in.
As a new launcher I want people to discover me but your current listing methodology is a little perverse in that you don't get discovered until you've been discovered!
Hooray! Can't wait to discover my next favorite newsletter.
This great one:
https://thepearls.substack.com/welcome