Great insight
I caught you on Brian Tyler Cohen ( Midas network ) on the weekend. I really enjoyed your analysis and breakdown of the current Trump situation. Planning to become a subscriber because of how impactful your comments are. I will be recommending to friends and family. Keep up the great work. The world needs more folks like you that can articulate issues of the day.
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Refreshing and real (no reels!)
How refreshing to have a space without depressing content and revolting comments. And every second post is not suggested or sponsored. Real content by real people. App is layout well and you choose what you see not the app.
Get into Substack because
This is where the truly brave people are.
App review
Why are people reviewing individual Substacks here? Anyway, my review of the app is “could be better”. I only really use the inbox tab, but recently discovered if you have notifications switched off for any subscriptions then you won’t see them here either, which seems daft. So your choices to find out about new posts from a subscribed Substack are email notification, push notification, or go to each Substack individually and look there. None of these are ideal as the notifications quickly get annoying once you have a few subscriptions.
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Appreciate this app and the developers
Appreciate the opportunity to hear the intelligent, researched and truly scientific and scholarly views on Substack. So important that we support and use these new platforms as others crumble and kneel to Tyrants.
Navigation & Notifications
I think Substack is a great idea and a great platform, but it just needs a few tweaks.
Navigation. It’s a little confusing and not intuitive. I also don’t like that if I choose to follow someone instead of subscribe, there’s no straightforward way to find them. I don’t want to just randomly subscribe to anyone pushing words onto the net. Some people I want to see a little more growth and quality but still have them on my radar.
My problem with notifications is that they’ll switch back to email from push if I don't visit Substack. I don’t want more emails and my life doesn’t revolve around apps. I think of Substack as “higher quality” in thought, but “pushy” behavior like this reminds me of a sleazy car salesman. If I’m not visiting Substack as often as YOU want, don’t change a setting and then start spamming my email. Become the platform that people CHOOSE to come back to. My recommendation is start with the above and make navigation more intuitive.
Navigation. It’s a little confusing and not intuitive. I also don’t like that if I choose to follow someone instead of subscribe, there’s no straightforward way to find them. I don’t want to just randomly subscribe to anyone pushing words onto the net. Some people I want to see a little more growth and quality but still have them on my radar.
My problem with notifications is that they’ll switch back to email from push if I don't visit Substack. I don’t want more emails and my life doesn’t revolve around apps. I think of Substack as “higher quality” in thought, but “pushy” behavior like this reminds me of a sleazy car salesman. If I’m not visiting Substack as often as YOU want, don’t change a setting and then start spamming my email. Become the platform that people CHOOSE to come back to. My recommendation is start with the above and make navigation more intuitive.
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Only one voice?
The only voice I can choose for playback is an American-Asian female voice. It takes the impact away from some stories where a male is meant to be speaking. Is there any way we could have a choice of Narrator styles and Nationalities?
Cassandra Butler
Great share on 🌕♒️☮️🙏💜
Website isn't as bad as this app
I have read occasional articles by a few writers but resisted getting involved with Substack because the I found the website unappealing to use. I had a bit of spare time so I thought I would give the app a try.
I subscribed to a couple of writers whose articles I had read but despite them having written articles in the past week, my (Following) feed shows that their latest was 95 days ago! The only way to find their articles was to go to my subscriptions and open their page there. At least on the website, even though articles don't appear in my feed either, there is a button link to get to them a bit more quickly.
Maybe it is because I am a bit old school and that I like to be in control but it seems that social media platforms are more about promoting than delivering and having stuff that I am not interested in shoved in my face rather than showing me what I want to see is like having unwanted sales calls when I am busy.
I wondered why I seem to be amongst the few who gave a low rating but then realised that most of those who have rated it highly are actually commenting on the content rather than the app itself.
Anyway, it looks like it is back to X/Twitter where I at least have a bit of say in what I see and will simply open Substack article links there.
I subscribed to a couple of writers whose articles I had read but despite them having written articles in the past week, my (Following) feed shows that their latest was 95 days ago! The only way to find their articles was to go to my subscriptions and open their page there. At least on the website, even though articles don't appear in my feed either, there is a button link to get to them a bit more quickly.
Maybe it is because I am a bit old school and that I like to be in control but it seems that social media platforms are more about promoting than delivering and having stuff that I am not interested in shoved in my face rather than showing me what I want to see is like having unwanted sales calls when I am busy.
I wondered why I seem to be amongst the few who gave a low rating but then realised that most of those who have rated it highly are actually commenting on the content rather than the app itself.
Anyway, it looks like it is back to X/Twitter where I at least have a bit of say in what I see and will simply open Substack article links there.
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Stable - app does what it is supposed to do
A refuge from the billionaire controlled media.
