New on Substack: Comments for everyone!
We’re excited to see an upswell of community activity on Substack, so we’re making it easier for writers and readers to interact with each other. Starting today, you can now enable comments on your posts for anyone on your mailing list, even if they’re not a paid subscriber.
To take advantage of the new comments option, make sure you have “community features” enabled on your Settings page. Then, for each new post that you publish, you can choose whether or not to allow comments. If you have a paid publication, you can still limit comments to only paying subscribers, even on public posts.
Only people on your mailing list can comment on your posts. If someone who isn’t already on your mailing list tries to comment on your post, they will first be asked to sign up. Remember that you can always delete comments by clicking “Delete” next to their comment. You can also disable comments any time after publishing your post.
Whether it’s delivering sermons from a women’s prison or speculating about upcoming NBA trades, we think that good conversations are one of the best parts about writing on Substack. We hope this new feature makes it easier for you and your readers to get to know each other. Try it on your next post and let us know what you think!
Read more about how to use discussion threads and build your community on Substack.
For me, only allowing paying subscribers to comment is one of the big advantages of substack... It means that I can only get trolled by people if they're paying me! 😂
Yes it really helps for that! And it remains the default. This change just lets the author choose to open it up if they want.
U r right.
You have exactly ZERO followers. (I did not pay to troll you)
Is there any plans to support custom domains for everyone?
Comments is something Substack needs to revisit. I can't participate in blogrolls or blogging communities because your comments is so jicky. You require people to set up a Substack profile to comment. Then, when they try to comment after that, you require them to update their profile and then .. it still doesn't work. There has to be an easier, less glitchy way to have comments. Also, can't embed code for blogrolls for various event participations within a post. The embed code rarely works. I really wish you'd resolve this!
Wonderful and so flexible! Thank you!
Good one
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Is there a place to search all comments for keywords?
I don't publish here, just a subscriber. Where do I find a link that shows my comments posted?
Hello, I'm a comic artist posting one page for day for my subscribers. I would LOVE it if there was an option for people to view posts oldest to newest, and also read them together in chronological order as a thread (I know there is a thread feature, but my format is one post per day). These things will be helpful for later subscribers after I reach 50 to 100 to 300 pages and lots of posts to sort through.
Thank you so much! I love so many things about Substack and it's so great for my work!
Was Biden forced to take a female as a running mate? I believe he was and someone much younger than him to top it off, so she can be the president, if Biden croaks while in office.
Do subscribers have to create an account to be able to comment or does clicking through from the mailing list automatically give them a sort of account?
Did you ever hear back on this?
not yet Meghan
Hi Nadia--I opened comments on my published letter today and and a generous reader left a note! I have a question...both I and another reader received an email notification about the comment. Is there a way that subscribers can turn off email notifications on comments? Are there instructions/explanations about comments/replies/notifications someplace? I looked, but did not find. Thanks!
Ditto on this question.
Hooray! Thank you so much.
great news. just what I've been looking for
Great feature to encourage engagement.
Thank you!
Very nice. Indeed
I just want to READ comments and I can’t. Even as a paid subscriber. What am I doing wrong or is that a feature in substack ?
Hello!
I'm trying to sort out the comments section on my substack:
It seems on my stack the comments, and replies to comments, have to be clicked on to be scene/displayed. On other stacks (like this one) they automatically just display below.
I cant figure out the setting to enable this?
As substack is a success , add two finger expand print size to facilitate reading on vibrating trains & buses etc. .
I want to be able to allow free subscribers to comment but when I set up my first paywall post it seems that only paying subscribers will be able to. I don't want to restrict comments, how can I change that?
cool
Please ad the option in "who can start new threads" for free subscribers.
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Doesn't work. Doesn't allow me to post. Doesn't acknowledge that I have a profile, keeps making me fill out a profile every time I try to comment, then fails to post the comment.
Also, there's no way to report any service issues to Substack. What gives? How are we supposed to report bugs?
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Do people need to have a substack account to comment on a post?
:)
Appreciate
After clearing my cache I can no longer post comments?
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The Professor’s Blackboard A Grand Conversation on Telegram documents what is happening to me. 100 Village Square Glen Cove New York is a black site a kill squad and genocide operation and unit 335 runs the entire place and all of this area.
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Post addendum perp handlers who also employ Illuminati HZZ1289 in a black Chrysler sedan Afro Hispanic male as a paid recruit ,stalking,harassment,mental taunting, and more with surveillance role playing and handler participation DHP6634 in a Cadillac Suburban in tan Hispanic kingpin of Hispanic mafia across the island deploying illegals here as well support of distillery up Forest Avenue where tremendous recruits are found for outside militias. There are armies hired to attack one little person. Religious persecution as a Jew is tremendous.There are so many more I can testify to. The police and fire departments are a great support of black operatives here and participate in the street theaters,bullying,corruption,
noise campaigns,intimidations and more as they are knowledgeable about the genocide and protect this black site in a 360 as this is surrounded by them as a fortress.
Post post addendum -They theft your online donation money as it never gets to ACLJ.org the Rutherford Institute or ADL and they identity theft your online banking disallowing you to use it properly because they shut it down play with the data and on top of that with illegal entries they theft your banking registers. I am forced now to carry in a backpack all that I can for fear of what is done. They alter my stock accounts too lowering data when it is flying high. They kill you in every facet of your life till your body gives out. They then use cell radiation to radiate your eyes because your cell does not run on a cell tower trashed Ti is on a stingray.please contact ACLJ.org the Rutherford Institute and ADL telling them of all including the theft of the donations .
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I put a comment "button" in my most recent post but it's not linking to a place to leave a comment and saying page unknown. Not sure what to do.
I’m a paying subscriber and I can no longer see any comments older than the two most recent plus I was unable to post my comment. This just started in January. Why is this suddenly occurring?
This isn't accurate-- when my subscribers try to comment on a post, Substack is prompting them to log in. Can you address?
my newsletter is currently free - when I turned comments on for one post - I was told that the message was paying subscribers only ..... I haven't don’t a rigorous test of this yet - but would be good to be able to personalize the messages anyway/
Are authors automatically notified via email when comments are made? I don’t see a setting for this
They are. There's no setting to turn them on, but you can mute the thread to turn them off.
Cool. Just making sure.
When I reply to the comment, my subscribers are getting an email of that thread. How do I turn this off?
They can mute the thread from the email change itself (click on the link that says "Mute this thread") or on the actual post in the comments section.
I know subscribers can mute but I'd like to be able to turn off the email at the start, before my subscribers receive notice when someone comments. Some of the comments might turn new subscribers away (too much bother, too many emails from strangers). Any chance this option could be available?
Please reply to Carol, huge pain point over there if host can't turn it off
We are working on an improved email notification system for comments. Stay tuned.
Great news!
excellent!
Perfect. But you should find some new features for payers only
Sorry, just testing to see whether HTML tags such as <b>bold</b>, <i>italic</i> and <blockquote>blockquote</blockquote> are accepted in comments.
Please save my life by contacting the ACLJ.org Jay Sekulow ASAP as I am an innocent American citizen and academic being abused,tortured and murdered at 100 Village square Glen Cove New York . They are in an attached unit to mine above me in 335 Hispanic mafia. I am in unit 235, and this is an underbelly criminal op of the deep state . Stasi Zersetzung. Cointelpro Gangstalking Harassment Manual but worse in this black site.