Writer Office Hours 📅

Have questions about publishing, growing, or going paid on Substack?

The Substack team, and your fellow writers, are here to help! Drop your questions in the discussion thread by leaving a comment, and we’ll do our best to share knowledge and tips.

Our team will be answering questions and sharing insights with you in the thread today from 10 a.m.–11 a.m. PST / 1 p.m.–2 p.m. EST.

Some product updates and reminders from the Substack team:

• Paid subscriber notes: After a reader upgrades to a paid subscription, they can send writers a note on why they paid. These notes offer a signal of why people value your work. See notes from paid subscribers in the Paid subscriber notes tab of Stats.

  

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• Share your post on Instagram Stories: After you publish a new post, it’s important to share it with potential subscribers where they are following you work. From the three-dot-menu of every post, shareable images in Instagram feed dimensions are available for download, as well as story dimensions, and square for any social platform or general promotion.

  

• Post search: We’ve added advanced search and filtering to make it even easier to surface posts from your archive, scheduled posts, and drafts. On the posts page, you can type any search term into the new search bar to see posts that match that search term populate below. In the filters dropdown, sort posts by audience, post type, section, author, or tag.

  

Got questions about Substack or feedback about a feature or tool? You’re in the right place! Leave a comment in this thread.