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Winston Malone's avatar

Paywalling archives is genius!! Thank you Substack for continuing to improve options for creators.

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A.J. Sky's avatar

It really is brilliant! The previous and next post link buttons are also WONDERFUL! And gift referrals...

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Jatan Mehta's avatar

This is a really huge number of productive updates that can tangibly help writers. Thank you to everyone at Substack.

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Frank  πŸŽ₯'s avatar

Great. Sooooo many things to review and think about. Will have to play with all of them.

Now ... what about automatic GIF generation for videos under New Media Kits??? 😎

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Kavir Kaycee's avatar

Super useful updates! Looking for a tool that converts a Substack article into a LinkedIn/a Instagram carousel format

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Katie @ Substack's avatar

Do you imagine that would include specific quotes from the post? Any great examples of LinkedIn/Instagram carousels you love?

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Tracing Insights's avatar

So many new and useful updates. Thank you

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Liberty's avatar

Awesome, thank you for all the hard work!

I do with that pull quotes were a bit more flexible in formatting and that I could have line breaks or hit "enter" to put something on another line. I may use them for quotes and they're not all one line, and the name of the author looks better a line down. Thank you!

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Katie @ Substack's avatar

Good feedback, thanks Liberty!

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David I. Adeleke's avatar

I really like these updates, especially the new media kits and serialisation.

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Ragavendhar's avatar

Extremely delighted to see all these updates from Substack. Thanks a lot, team!

Especially love the "Pull quote". I've wanted that since the beginning.

One other suggestion would be to bring in syntax highlighting for code blocks. This would be a huge deal for publications related to programming, like mine.

Once again, thanks a lot.

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Eva's avatar

Such a lot to take in. They are all brilliant. Well done Substack team.

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Brian Reindel πŸ‘Ύβš”οΈ's avatar

I'm not sure if this is the right place to offer feedback on the Android app, but notifications are turned on, and never send. Is it some sort of digest that doesn't send as often? Loading my feed and loading comments almost always fails the first time. Writing a comment works, but being sent back to the comments thread after I do so, always fails.

I also have one feature request. If I'm in my Library > Archive, I want to swipe to move them out and back into my inbox, just like I did to get them into my archive. Sometimes I scroll through my inbox, and accidentally swipe to archive. I can't get it out unless I go into the web reader.

Thanks!

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Katie @ Substack's avatar

Thanks for the feedback, Brian! I just passed along to our Android team.

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Brian Reindel πŸ‘Ύβš”οΈ's avatar

Thanks Katie. If they need any details about my phone or Android version, or anything like that, I'm happy to provide.

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N.T. Lazer's avatar

Media kits will be especially useful for transitioning from Instagram in my case. Much appreciated

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Bailey @ Substack's avatar

This guide may be worth checking out if you haven't yet! https://on.substack.com/p/bringing-followers-from-instagram

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Craig J Todd's avatar

Thanks! Great new features - some which I'm already taking advantage of. πŸ‘

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Michael Fritzell's avatar

Awesome - thanks for working so hard at delivering these features

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Michael Spencer's avatar

Very excited about the potential of Substack Boost. Media Assets reminds me of N2S, but lacking the customization.

If I paywall my archives, are they less searchable on Google I wonder?

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Kamil Tusznio's avatar

The content below the paywall would no longer be indexed. The title, subtitle, and first bit of the post would remain indexable.

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Michael Spencer's avatar

Thank you for the feedback Kamil. That's helpful to know.

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Peter Cheng's avatar

What a wonderful update! The option to create a Page is very helpful, and I love the previous and next post link. Thank you!

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Derrick Farnell's avatar

I can't find a help page for Pages. Am I correct that subscribers aren't notified of the publication of new Pages?

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Kamil Tusznio's avatar

Correct!

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