Encouraged
Don’t know what to say. Feel encouraged that someone out there is fighting for me asI just can’t. Live alone since ME broke up my twenty year relationship over 20 years ago. Contracted this disease in 1990. Am now 77 and live totally alone in a 1st floor ex-council flat. My condition is medium and entering severe. In bed 90 % of time. I find no use from my doctors ever though some have shown compassion. Not all and all I believe have no conprehension. I am my sole carer and was even in my relationship. Good to know you exist. But don’t know how it can help me. I have no more fight in me.
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Poor user interface
App is functional-ish on mobile devices. Current version of the app is making me log in every single time I try and open a PDF from the creators I pay subscriptions too which is EXTREMELY frustrating. Irritating to use the app and if I didn’t have to I wouldn’t.
Exciting times
As ever, a excellent read Paul, I agree with most of your post, I think FSG have pulled another rabbit in Arne, Jurgen gave us everything he said he would, including leaving the club in a very healthy position,
As brilliant as Jurgen was/is, Arne is more hands on and can give those who need it that extra bit of confidence,
I’m excited by what I’ve seen thus far albeit we have yet to be properly tested, but the signs are very good, it looks like we’ll press with more purpose perhaps more methodical, he has the a tool box full of the right tools and with a couple of additions I honestly can see us challenging for major honours, yes, even this early in our transitional season,
We weren’t too far away last season under the burden of Jurgen’s last hurrah, I felt his bombshell actually had the adverse reaction he hoped it would, but that’s gone now and we have potentially a squad capable of taking those other two horses to the finishing line, again, and who knows who’s nose will cross that line in front??
Would you bet against us ??
YNWA
As brilliant as Jurgen was/is, Arne is more hands on and can give those who need it that extra bit of confidence,
I’m excited by what I’ve seen thus far albeit we have yet to be properly tested, but the signs are very good, it looks like we’ll press with more purpose perhaps more methodical, he has the a tool box full of the right tools and with a couple of additions I honestly can see us challenging for major honours, yes, even this early in our transitional season,
We weren’t too far away last season under the burden of Jurgen’s last hurrah, I felt his bombshell actually had the adverse reaction he hoped it would, but that’s gone now and we have potentially a squad capable of taking those other two horses to the finishing line, again, and who knows who’s nose will cross that line in front??
Would you bet against us ??
YNWA
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Great for reading
The app is catered to the readers. So it is a front end with ever developing features. It works well for me as a reader every time I want to read more after getting an email.
I would also like to have a back-end app for the writers. Shutterstock would be a good example: an app for publishers, another one for the contributors.
I would also like to have a back-end app for the writers. Shutterstock would be a good example: an app for publishers, another one for the contributors.
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Free Speech Platform Is Freedom to Read, Learn and Tgink
Did you ever see a T-shirt emblazoned with the words: “Think. It’s Not Illegal…Yet”?
I remember the first time I saw that and my thought was “Gee, that’s an overreach”. But my second thought was ”Maybe not…Remember the book 1984…Remember the book Fahrenheit 451?” Do high school and college students even read those anymore? Were they banned?
I’m new to Sub-Stack. I’d heard about it for several years but I am a satisfied reader, happy I took the plunge and signed up for a few free subscriptions after hearing a commentator on a news channel. And what’s so wrong about “talking heads” anyway? I say they are “thinking heads”! I even pay for a couple subscriptions because I want to support these diverse writers who think independently and aren’t dependent on a mega-corporation owned by an authoritarian billionaire. Try it! It’s not illegal yet! It’s uncensored thinking that’s written and updated often — you don’t have to wait for the book.
I remember the first time I saw that and my thought was “Gee, that’s an overreach”. But my second thought was ”Maybe not…Remember the book 1984…Remember the book Fahrenheit 451?” Do high school and college students even read those anymore? Were they banned?
I’m new to Sub-Stack. I’d heard about it for several years but I am a satisfied reader, happy I took the plunge and signed up for a few free subscriptions after hearing a commentator on a news channel. And what’s so wrong about “talking heads” anyway? I say they are “thinking heads”! I even pay for a couple subscriptions because I want to support these diverse writers who think independently and aren’t dependent on a mega-corporation owned by an authoritarian billionaire. Try it! It’s not illegal yet! It’s uncensored thinking that’s written and updated often — you don’t have to wait for the book.
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A few criticisms
Please stop the app from closing the articles I’m reading when I return to my home screen or change apps briefly, it’s incredibly annoying. There is no reading history so I have to find it manually each time, it makes me want to use the web app instead. Also, it’s too pricy to subscribe to more than one or two people, maybe a subscription for all like Apple News would be better.
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Intelligent writing for intelligent readers!
Stacks and the Financial Times online are my two favourite places to read thought provoking pieces of writing that are balanced both in their political perspectives and their evaluation of the world we live in. Such places are needed in the modern world so much, but are unfortunately rare given the modern tendency to polarisation. Keep up the good work!
Martyn Cooper, retired academic, formerly of the Open University, and the University of Reading both in the UK.
Martyn Cooper, retired academic, formerly of the Open University, and the University of Reading both in the UK.
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Substack is the greatest publishing platform… but
I truly love Substack. It has been a great platform and really helped me grow but this app… Please for the love will you guys please add the ability to write and publish and interact in a more cohesive fluid and easily interactive way I feel like the app is just utterly useless at the moment. I want and I’m looking for something similar but more beside of or a kin to what discord has done in the voice and video communications department, and community building. I hope that Substack one day adds the ability to stream live publish more fluently on mobile ads more features, and improves layouts templates and customize ability. I truly believe in Substack as a viable and truly revolutionary platform as opposed to having 25 or 30 other social media websites that you have to constantly post to for algorithmic likes. Please get to work on this app. It is nearing the middle of 2024. You have a great great possibility to be the it platform.
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really hard to find the paid subscription area & it’s prices
a lot of the publications say “paid only” but then there’s no option to click to pay! & even after subscribing i have to read the “subscribe” nonsense text when i open to read a paid post!
As usual
Tom good to see you expressing yourself. In California they invented the word yes and abolished the word no above all in so many parental situations. There is no such thing as a point of no return and as California distinguishes itself in being among the first to extinguish itself. After it crashes and burns it will rise again as the phoenix did from the ashes. We seem to always need to learn the hard way. Germany crashed and burned after two world wars today they accomplished all their war dreams in peace. We are like children putting our hand int9 the fire until we finally learn.
On a more delightful folic we our on our last day 9f 15 days in Portugal a real little jewel of a country. Back to Italy tomorrow for more fun and games still time to join us.
On a more delightful folic we our on our last day 9f 15 days in Portugal a real little jewel of a country. Back to Italy tomorrow for more fun and games still time to join us.
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