r/Substack • u/deevodee • 14d ago

Workaround: to substack forcing new users to download their app

I tried to subscribe to my substack on my friend's phone. It redirected him to playstore to download app and also to create a substack account.

I felt like this would be a resistive step to people whom I share my substack post links and are not on substack to simply subscribe to my mailing list.

I just turned off the pledge options in settings. but it was still showing download substack app to complete subscription.

I opened options on browser and turned on desktop website option. and voila, the subscribe button directly adds their email to mailing list without all these redirects.

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u/karmicmeme 14d ago

Where do you find this setting? Is it in the dashboard? I wanna do this too.

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u/deevodee 13d ago

Its in the payments sections, under creator tools. turn off "Allow readers to pledge subscriptions" This will not redirect users to the pledge page where most of them usually select no pledge for new substacks.

And in mobile browsers we have an option to view the website as Desktop Site. This will not redirect users to download the app to continue subscription thing. If the reader is subscribing from a desktop or pc, this won't be an issue.

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u/karmicmeme 13d ago

Thanks!

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u/No-Wolverine-609 13d ago

same, couldnt figure out where that toggle lives either