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Emily Ding's avatar

No, no—I'm talking about each newsletter itself. If it has sub newsletters, links to those sub newsletters appear in the top menu bar, but there is no link to just posts categorised under the main newsletter. Does that make sense?

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Katie @ Substack's avatar

Oh ok! You're using sections. The main newsletter is a feed of all the posts across your section chronologically. It sounds like you want that feed to just be a specific set of posts?

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moviewise 🎟's avatar

Speaking of sections, I like how the menu of sections (the section bar) appears on the main page, https://moviewise.substack.com right under the title of the newsletter on the left, and it would be great if that same list of sections also appeared in the same way on the archive page: https://moviewise.substack.com/archive so that readers could navigate to different sections from the archive. Would this be doable? Thanks for your time.

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Emily Ding's avatar

Ah yes, I meant sections! And no, I’m happy with the front page feed of my newsletter being one that encompasses all posts. What I would like is another separate feed of all posts not posted under separate sections—and for that link to also appear alongside the section links

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moviewise 🎟's avatar

You could add a "miscellaneous" section for the posts that don't fit in the current sections. I use 5 sections in my newsletter. Each and all posts have to fit into one of the five sections, so I don't have any uncategorized posts. I think it keeps things tidy and simple: https://moviewise.substack.com

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Emily Ding's avatar

Yes, I see that. But thing is, I'd like the main newsletter not to be an empty section, as when a reader goes to their Account page, one of the boxes they can tick to subscribe to is the name of the main newsletter alongside the other sections—and there could be some confusion as to what that means. As a subscriber I might think that if I ticked that box (the name of the newsletter) I'm subscribing to ALL sections, when in fact I'm subscribing to none... and have to tick all the other sections to receive emails?

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moviewise 🎟's avatar

Yes, this is confusing. When the reader goes into their "Account" page, the top "main" newsletter should include all the other "sections" by default so if only that box is ticked the reader gets all the sections. Currently the reader would get none of the posts if all posts are put into individual sections when publishing and the reader only ticked the "main" newsletter box (and unticked all the other sections). The reader Account view should display the "main" newsletter page on top with the other sections nested underneath it, so that it is clear that the sections are subsections of the "main" newsletter.

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moviewise 🎟's avatar

The main newsletter, for me, is this page: https://moviewise.substack.com and it includes ALL the posts with the latest on top. So the main newsletter is not empty. I believe that my subscribers only subscribe to the main newsletter and they get all the sections.

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