New! Homepage links, restore post drafts, and improved stats page
on.substack.com
We’ve recently added some new features to improve the publishing experience on Substack. Recommended links First, you can now add links to your Substack homepage. Create as many sections as you’d like, and then add any number of links to each. You can use links as a blogroll, to direct readers to other places to find you on the web, or to highlight popular posts, among other uses. To add, edit, or delete links, go to
Thank you for adding the new "Recommended Links" feature. It would be nice if those links would open in a new tab instead of taking the user out of Substack.
Thank you. Will all these changes be available for absolutely everyone?
One of my biggest problems is that after doing the very hard work of promoting my newsletter on my social media channels (heavy lifting all by myself) then the new subscribers get lost and tell me things like: "Is this your blog?" "Why doesn't it look like your blog?" "How do I find your articles?" "Why can't I find any of your articles on Google Search like I do with your Medium articles?" My hard-earned suscribers feel that my newsletter is like my "MailChimp" (emails, not articles).
I suggest making our newsletter home page look like what it is, a blog.
Separately, hopefully you can implement that "undo" button when writing, much needed.
Lastly, please, do consider letting us add audio as audio clips anywhere on the article, without creating a podcast, not as a podcast. Audio is 2021, but we can't treat the current audio feature as a real podcast (no editing to start with), so is neither one thing nor the other one in reality right now. I made this request long ago in a comment, like this one, and got many likes. Hopefully you can fetch that comment and check it.
Thank you for all you do, guys. I left Medium and came here because I believe what you believe. Let me know how else I could help.
These three additions look good. I still would like the ability to have rich embeds for ALL links exactly like the Revue feature or at least the ability to add the embed code from a service like iframely.
Will there ever be a function that allows the type to wrap (left or right) around images? Is this not available because of rendering problems with email readers?
I'd REALLY like to be able to do this in my posts but am limited to gigantic horizontal-only images throughout my text.
Excellent! Appreciate how you folks keep innovating without drastically shifting the basic template, which I value (for its simplicity and spaciousness).
OK, that is nice. But the draft history is last week. I need to fix an accidental deletion I did in the last minute. What is needed is an Undo button. It would also be nice if there was a place at Support where one could ask a question. I would like to know how I can make the background color of the email the same as my homepage background color
These are FANTASTIC improvements. Thank you and keep 'em coming. This definitely is a HUGE incentive to focus on Substack as a writer vs other platforms.
Fan-flipping-tastic. I genuinely appreciate the “recommended links” feature because those of us writing a “series” of articles ...this allows us to collate and/or create sub-categories. Again thank you for this nifty new feature.
Good news. Now could you please add the ability for poetry to be posted in single spaced verse with double spaces between verses. It is impossible to do whether by direct means or cut and paste. No matter how I format, once I hit “publish” the text is converted to straight double space with no added space between verses. Very frustrating and negatively affects the rhythm of the work. Thank you.
A round of applause for the updated Stats page. This is the the most crucial missing feature set compared to email delivery services. Please continue to build out the stats page (unsubscribes by subscriber, # of opens by subscriber, links by click) so I can better understand my audience. Thank you!
Awesome! Using the blogroll on all of my blogs but there is one problem––It's looking too cramped with the sidebar on the Desktop. Specifically, the width of the list of posts feels too short, I think the sidebar should be pushed a bit outward?
Thank you for adding the new "Recommended Links" feature. It would be nice if those links would open in a new tab instead of taking the user out of Substack.
Omg— restore drafts! I once accidentally wiped away content and had to re-create the wheel, shocked there wasn’t a simple undo button. Thank you!
Thank you. Will all these changes be available for absolutely everyone?
One of my biggest problems is that after doing the very hard work of promoting my newsletter on my social media channels (heavy lifting all by myself) then the new subscribers get lost and tell me things like: "Is this your blog?" "Why doesn't it look like your blog?" "How do I find your articles?" "Why can't I find any of your articles on Google Search like I do with your Medium articles?" My hard-earned suscribers feel that my newsletter is like my "MailChimp" (emails, not articles).
I suggest making our newsletter home page look like what it is, a blog.
Separately, hopefully you can implement that "undo" button when writing, much needed.
Lastly, please, do consider letting us add audio as audio clips anywhere on the article, without creating a podcast, not as a podcast. Audio is 2021, but we can't treat the current audio feature as a real podcast (no editing to start with), so is neither one thing nor the other one in reality right now. I made this request long ago in a comment, like this one, and got many likes. Hopefully you can fetch that comment and check it.
Thank you for all you do, guys. I left Medium and came here because I believe what you believe. Let me know how else I could help.
Jacob Gheller, MrGheller
Miami, FL.
I can't see how to visit other substack writers. Is there a catalogue of writers and subjects that would tell me who everybody else is?
These three additions look good. I still would like the ability to have rich embeds for ALL links exactly like the Revue feature or at least the ability to add the embed code from a service like iframely.
Brilliant additions! Love the blog roll feature. Finally a way to sort of have categories to encourage readers to browse more of our content.
Rob C.
Will there ever be a function that allows the type to wrap (left or right) around images? Is this not available because of rendering problems with email readers?
I'd REALLY like to be able to do this in my posts but am limited to gigantic horizontal-only images throughout my text.
Excellent! Appreciate how you folks keep innovating without drastically shifting the basic template, which I value (for its simplicity and spaciousness).
OK, that is nice. But the draft history is last week. I need to fix an accidental deletion I did in the last minute. What is needed is an Undo button. It would also be nice if there was a place at Support where one could ask a question. I would like to know how I can make the background color of the email the same as my homepage background color
These are FANTASTIC improvements. Thank you and keep 'em coming. This definitely is a HUGE incentive to focus on Substack as a writer vs other platforms.
Fan-flipping-tastic. I genuinely appreciate the “recommended links” feature because those of us writing a “series” of articles ...this allows us to collate and/or create sub-categories. Again thank you for this nifty new feature.
Good news. Now could you please add the ability for poetry to be posted in single spaced verse with double spaces between verses. It is impossible to do whether by direct means or cut and paste. No matter how I format, once I hit “publish” the text is converted to straight double space with no added space between verses. Very frustrating and negatively affects the rhythm of the work. Thank you.
A round of applause for the updated Stats page. This is the the most crucial missing feature set compared to email delivery services. Please continue to build out the stats page (unsubscribes by subscriber, # of opens by subscriber, links by click) so I can better understand my audience. Thank you!
Awesome! Using the blogroll on all of my blogs but there is one problem––It's looking too cramped with the sidebar on the Desktop. Specifically, the width of the list of posts feels too short, I think the sidebar should be pushed a bit outward?
Thank you for the new features! Next, we would love to see the posts can be sorted out into categories.
Any chance we could get the ability to add a drop cap?