It's not a huge number--34 I just counted--but even if I only subscribed to two newsletters, if one of them was a publication who is very liberal with recommendations, it might flood my recommendations sidebar with publications I'm not interested in. So being able to manage that would still be useful. You're right though, the density of …
It's not a huge number--34 I just counted--but even if I only subscribed to two newsletters, if one of them was a publication who is very liberal with recommendations, it might flood my recommendations sidebar with publications I'm not interested in. So being able to manage that would still be useful. You're right though, the density of substack-based recommendations will depend on how many subscriptions I have!
I was more curious why you had so many substack recs vs others. I'm probably right where you are on subscriptions. When I refreshed just now, I did see 4 or 5 recs in a row by one writer. I didn't like that. I can see the case for being able to customize your recs based on interests (categories, maybe?).
That would be interesting! I am sure there is a clever way to address this issue and add functionality we haven't thought of. If we pull on this thread hard enough we end up with an Algorithm, and I know that's something contrary to the Substack ethos. It'll be cool to see how this feature evolves!
I think you may be seeing more recommendations from On Substack than others because the stacks you follow haven't implemented the Recommendations feature. I am always seeing recommendations from other Substacks created by individual users instead of something like On Substack.
It's not a huge number--34 I just counted--but even if I only subscribed to two newsletters, if one of them was a publication who is very liberal with recommendations, it might flood my recommendations sidebar with publications I'm not interested in. So being able to manage that would still be useful. You're right though, the density of substack-based recommendations will depend on how many subscriptions I have!
I was more curious why you had so many substack recs vs others. I'm probably right where you are on subscriptions. When I refreshed just now, I did see 4 or 5 recs in a row by one writer. I didn't like that. I can see the case for being able to customize your recs based on interests (categories, maybe?).
That would be interesting! I am sure there is a clever way to address this issue and add functionality we haven't thought of. If we pull on this thread hard enough we end up with an Algorithm, and I know that's something contrary to the Substack ethos. It'll be cool to see how this feature evolves!
Agreed! Great discussion!
I think you may be seeing more recommendations from On Substack than others because the stacks you follow haven't implemented the Recommendations feature. I am always seeing recommendations from other Substacks created by individual users instead of something like On Substack.