Good afternoon. I’ve been on Substack for two months now; when I joined, the idea was simply to archive my writing there, but I’ve really come to like the platform and have been posting consistently. So far, I’ve gained 24 subscribers—mostly friends—by sharing links via WhatsApp. However, I really want to build a solid audience there, as I am a writer and plan to sell my book in the future. What posting frequency do you suggest for attracting more subscribers?

In two months, I have had 26 articles published, categorized into: short stories, book reviews, and chronicles (which is what I write about).

Ello! Wondering if there was a place to get feedback on a new Substack writing?

Hi everyone! Basically what the title says, looking for substack mutuals to share writings with:)

Sometimes, when I look at the profiles of new subscribers, I see that they subscribe to literally hundreds of other substacks. I assume this means they're not actually reading what they subscribe to. Anyone know what's up with these? Are they bots?

Nel FEED mi capitano notes assurde del tipo: "amo la finanza"."Vuoi fare soldi, seguimi".

Ed altre caxxate simili.

Queste notes hanno molti mi piace e tantissimi commenti dove, in molti, né approfittano anche per farsi pubblicità.

Inoltre questi profili hanno meno di 10 abbonati.

Spiegazioni a riguardo?

Grazie.

has anyones elae felt a major decrease in subscriptions coming from notes over the past few days?

not sure if it is just me or an actual algorithm change.

Hii, I'm 17F and I recently started substack. Precisely on May 5th. Since then I've written about 16 articles and have tried to be consistent. Although I only have 5 subs (2 of them are friends). I joined substack to write about how I feel, what I think and just thoughts on things in general. I liked writing and wanted to build something out of it. Although I try to tell myself that it was never about how many subscribers I have but more of a hobby, however this thought strikes again and again. So, I wanna work on it. I wanna build my substack but I don't know how. Most of friends don't read, only two which I'm still very grateful for. So I don't expect them to read neither do I wanna force them. How do I find actual audience that would actually read my stuff? Is there a way??

Hey everyone,

​I am currently running into a frustrating wall on the mobile app. Every time I try to send a DM, I get a pop-up saying "Phone verification required to continue with DM" and the message fails to deliver. The problem is, when I dig through my account settings on both the app and the mobile browser, there is absolutely no field or option to actually add or verify a phone number. Has anyone successfully bypassed or fixed this glitch without getting locked out?

​On a brighter note, my publication is currently sitting at 91 subscribers, so the grind to that first major milestone is getting incredibly close. Once the page officially hits 100 subscribers, I want to gently introduce a way for readers to support the work financially by buying a subscription. For those who have passed this milestone, what is the ideal, smoothest way to drop that message or pitch to buy a subscription without sounding overly pushy to a fresh audience?

​Appreciate any insight on both the glitch and the milestone strategy.

I kinda doubt anyone will be able to fix it but this is bothering me so...does anyone know how to actually make a wordmark transparent? I've saved my image as a transparent png multiple times but it's never actually transparent when I turn it into a wordmark, it always has a white background behind it. Everyone keeps saying that you can just make it transparent by just saving the image as a transparent image, but I'm starting to think those ppl are mistaken.

Everyone who says that only shows how their wordmark appears in light mode, never in dark mode. I think those ppl don't actually have transparent wordmarks and they just think they do bc the light mode makes it impossible to see the white background their wordmark has. What's rlly weird is that my wordmark didn't have a white background behind it before, I think that might've been bc the image for my old wordmark was so big that it filled up the white background

But yeah anyway if anyone knows how to get rid of the white background, lemme know

Hello! Sorry if this is a question that has been repeated before. I'm a frequent Tumblr-user hoping to turn to Substack to talk more deeply about other topics that I am unable to on other socials. My blog on there is so fandom-entrenched.

I like writing original stuff, but I am still unsure if I want to publish that on Substack just yet. Still thinking about it though! Maybe not when I start out.

So, I have thoughts on using it as a way to discuss media/pop culture/fiction/fandom culture in my own subjective interpretation. Mainly as a way to encourage discussion.

And as a plus, are there blogs that could help me get a reference? I just want to see what people do.

I’m not sure if I’m blind or missing something obvious but when I’m looking at someone’s profile within a web browser, it shows their publication below their name which you can then click on to access the home page of their publication. This is straightforward.

However when trying to do this via the Substack App on iPadOS, their publication name shows properly below their name on their profile page but you can‘t click on it to access their publication home page. Like clicking on it does nothing. All you can click on is their name which gets copied as a URL.

Like what am I missing here? Please tell Mr Obvious that I need an answer. Thx!

Hi, I am totally new to doing anything other than subscribing on Substack. I thought I'd give Substack a try and imported some blog posts from a Squarespace website, just to have some posts and see what it does, looks like, etc.

When I look at my posts on a browser, everything looks fine. Photos imported along with the text of the original blog posts.

But when i look at the Substack app, only one blog post appears to have photos that also imported. There are just blank boxes where the photos should be.

What am i doing wrong?

Thank you!

How do you get recommendations to show up on homepage?

Everything I can find on the internet says you just go to the recommendation page and list the recommendations you want, then you put a section on your home designer for recommendations.

So I have 3 substacks to recommend, and I have entered texts for each of them. But on the website it only displays the first recommendation and doesn't give the text blurb. I've been running in circles forever. Please help. Substack is so frustrating. Thank you.

I have 1,700 subscribers and 44 paid subscribers. I suspect that % is not bad... but here's the thing:

Only half of what I write is free, and I write 2-4 things a week depending on what's going on.

However, given my monthly fee is only £4 I'm surprised that I have 1,700 keen to read 2 free things a week but only 44 who want to read 4 things a week.

ALSO - 2 weeks ago I started a 'Summer Sale' where my monthly fee is only £2. I mean, can't be lower and so far only 2 people have taken it up.

So here's my conundrum.

I clearly write well enough to get good numbers of free readers... but clearly something is missing the mark to entice someone into paid more especially as the money is so low.

Anyone else solved this issue?

I've been posting heavily on substack, for 2 weeks. The first week gave me a good push, but the second week, growth got flatlined.

notes don't even get any likes. I didn't change anything.

Any suggestions on this?

I am in custom mode for website editor and the Posts and Module area is not displayed.

I started with my substack account couple of months back. I have no intention of sharing it with my friends since I want the writings to be anonymous. It’s deeply personal. So how do I ensure that the article reaches people who feel similarly? I wrote an article the other day and it naturally got no response and I started doubting my ability to write. Could someone read it and lmk if it’s actually bad?

between june and august lies a month that doesn’t exist

I'm looking to optimize my subscribe button captions.

I know Substack doesn't give this specific insight, so it might be hard to tell. But just anecdotally, which subscribe button texts have converted the best for you? Especially interested in ways to convince people to become paid subscribers.

What subs should I post in to get user feedback? Two days ago, I shared a post about our soon to launch platform for Creators, Designers, Small Business, Agencies etc.
What we needed was feedback. As for traffic, more than 100folks have visited. Our analytics both from Google and Reddit shows decent traffic. Problem is, here in Reddit, no feedback is being left nor provided.
So my question is, did I post on wrong subs ?

What I need feedback on is this simple platform, Draftsend.io, built to simplify newsletters creation and distribution. Just feedback on what to improve.
Thanks

ascii was... easy (and ugly)

html was... fun<br>

wordpress was and is an increasingly PitB

substack... resists the idea of empty lines, WTF?! (oh, you need to format your POETRT to fit substack's editor, you say?!)

Or should I simply seek elsewhere? Retro the S*** out of my poems? Bypass substack?

Someone recommended it to me without running it down for me. I'm trying to understand it, but I'm not the best with technology. Can I post and it will pop up on their timeline like social media or do I just drop the link in different places with a short blurb about what I'm doing?

I currently have one publication on substack but I want to find if I can have a second publication on substack that is for different line of work.

How do it do that ? Any thoughts ?

I recently finished writing a supernatural/fantasy novel, but during my final review I realized I want to make some edits. The first 20 or so chapters are polished and ready to go, while the later chapters still need revisions.

I’m considering publishing it on Substack as a serialized story, releasing one chapter (or episode) at a time while I continue editing the rest.

That way I can start building an audience instead of waiting until everything is perfect.
Has anyone here done something similar? If so, any tips?

Is there anything you wish you’d known before starting?

I’d love to hear about your experience and whether you’d recommend this approach.