Substack

“Love substack and would like to start posting some of my writing ( few poems ect) for a creative outlet. Not fussed with being 'seen' or famous on there.”

“What percentage of Substack subscribers are generally paying members? Compared to free follows.”

“But what helped more than anything was connecting to other writers on Substack.”

“How do you grow a very niche Substack?”

“I’m going to whittle it down to just Substack where I’m getting a lot of traction compared to YouTube.”

“I like that many readers on substack are creators themselves, it feels more genuine than most platforms that are passive and consumption driven”

“It is great to have your own email list. Curious if you have emailed to that list outside of substack to see how many opens you get.”

“I subscribe to probably wayyyy too many--over 100?-- Substack newsletters, and I never get emails when they post. Maybe once every few months, I do get an email from one of them, but it's usually to let me know something outside of their newsletter, or to sell me a service or workshop.”

“I changed my email on my Substack account, none of that happened for me.”

“I’ve reached out to support multiple times and still haven’t gotten it resolved. Seeing your post is the first time I’ve seen someone describe the same weird “shadow account” situation I’ve been dealing with.”

“Substack account management is really poor. They claim to have a password and now 2FA, but it’s not industry-standard – no keypass support. If you lose access to your email, you’re screwed.”

“Except now this seems to delete all of the images from your posts. You have many beautiful images accompanying your notes that added meaning and mood to what you were writing about. Now it’s text.”

“I started out being frustrated for years, wondering "why aren't anybody writing these kinds of stories?" So I started writing them myself. And after a while I wanted somewhere to put all these stories, and randomly chose Substack.”

“In my experience, visibility is easier in substack. I have some of the same content in substack and wordpress. The wordpress content has literally no views while Substack ones get a couple hundred views generally.”

“Substack gives you more built-in discovery and community, so there is at least a chance for people to find you organically without already knowing who you are. That does not mean Substack will automatically grow your audience, but it removes some of the friction.”

“In my niche I've seen 5 people suspended and banned on substack. That's the difference.”

“Substack has better community and hence more chance for visibility, correct? I've struggled to get my blog noticed for the most part, the only times I really have is when I've posted a link to Reddit.”

“The Substacks I pay for give me real definable value. There’s one that tells me about happenings in my town that I don’t see anywhere else, for example.”

“The only substack I'm a paid sub for is Cognitive Wonderland, and the author is a really good writer and really knows his stuff and puts a lot of research into his posts, and runs a book club for paid subscribers. I'd pay for more if I weren't super strapped for cash right now.”

“For those of you who have paid for a Substack, what made you decide to subscribe? And for writers, what do you think is the "secret" to getting people interested enough to pay?”

“Substack is dying, there's been a mass exodus of writers and readers.”

“I’m considering moving to Substack because Beehiiv offers little organic discovery, while Substack has its own reader network. I’m hoping that posting regularly on Notes and engaging with the community will help me grow my audience.”

“My latest substack (link in first comment)”

“I love the Substack Generation but it is additive, not a solution to our world's collective news problem.”

“Substack writers spend a substantial amount of time generating content for their viewers. Often that’s their livelihood”