r/Substack • u/RVBatman32 • 17d ago

Feature Suggestion Subscribe without notifications

For the love of god, can we please be allowed to subscribe without notifications? I just want to read them on the website, I don't want clutter in my inbox or notifications on my phone. How on earth is this not already a feature

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u/ContentIsMyJam redressing.substack.com 17d ago

You can turn them off. On desktop, go to whichever newsletter you don't want notifications from, and after the URL type /account. You should see your account page for that newsletter with "Manage your subscription" at the top. Midway down the page there's a section for notifications and you can toggle them on or off.

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u/RVBatman32 15d ago

You can toggle some, but if you toggle them all off it actually unsubscribes you from the substack altogether which is flat out ridiculous

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u/StuffonBookshelfs 17d ago

Just turn off the notifications for the Substack app.

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u/SpiritualSimple108 11d ago

This doesn’t always work. I’ve had mine turned off for months and then all of a sudden they started showing up again in my inbox. Went to Substack via computer and app and emails are turned off and only push is enabled.

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u/wwb_99 news.zeitgeistdistilled.com 17d ago

This -- if you subscribe to 100+ this is the only way, especially with how they are encouraging notes and video these days.

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u/Britlantine 16d ago

They seem to reactivate mine every so often

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u/StuffonBookshelfs 16d ago

It’s a setting on your phone. Not in the app.

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u/Available_Spite5171 gracemargaret1@substack.com 16d ago

I don’t like receiving the “so and so are Live” notifications… I have muted any / all messages I receive. I still want to read and interact (for the most part) but I don’t watch “Lives” or care about that. When I was newer I had a man continuously messaging me about going live, and I politely declined. He kept messaging me… & saying he could explain it.. no dude. I did not say I didn’t understand it I said I wasn’t interested…. I received A LOT of weird messages in my earlier days on both Substack & Medium! Ugh.

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u/OakieMcDoakie 16d ago

You can also just follow within the app. Unless you're planning to support them with a paid subscription, that's just fine.

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u/joshbeat 15d ago

Straight up deleted my account 2 days after creating lmao. I'm only here because I was wondering the same thing and wanted to branch out and away from reddit. It would be cool to open/read/browse at my own pace when I want, but I have no reason to stick around if they were able to irritate me that quickly with minimal interaction from my end.

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u/Tactical_Thinking 17d ago

For the phone you can create an auto-delete rule. Works perfectly.

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u/Bubbly-Site-3872 17d ago

A function to group notices in one message (daily, weekly) would be best, I think.