So I had a business contact forward me an email of a paid Substack post they thought would interest me. A few paragraphs down, the email has a button saying "Continue reading this post for free, courtesy of newsletter writer." I clicked through, but didn't realize I was signed into my own Substack account on my browser.

Feb 23, 2021 · Sure. With share feature from Substack, it doesn't work either. The conversion occurs, but only for the part of the article that is free for everyone to see. The complete article, which is for paid subscribers only, doesn't get converted. The conversion is perfect when I receive the paid article via email and then just forward to the inbox.

Feb 11, 2023 · Didn't work for me. Substack rejected every mode by Datawrapper. Any ideas? update: d/l'ed a png. Cut off the end (long table).

Jul 24, 2021 · Substack is more of a tool than a social platform. At least right now. If you already have a WordPress blog, you're actually more advanced than most Substack users. That is, the best use case for Substack, imo, is for people who want to get started in 60 seconds and don't want to fiddle with any tech stuff at all.

Dec 24, 2023 · I have more than one Substack, I keep them all completely separate from one another as their readerships mostly don’t align. One is intentionally anonymous, so I wouldn’t ever cross-post, but if there was a common ground between the other two I would consider cross-posting from one to another.

Mar 27, 2023 · A lot of them were substack newsletters. She has never logged in to substack and claims she has not subscribed to any of these newsletter. I went through the process of logging her in to substack, and found there were >400 email lists she has been subscribed to. Seems like substack is a spam factory.

Oct 10, 2023 · I just got 3 coinciding emails from "Author Valley" via substack. I do not subscribe to newsletters. 2 emails were "subscribing" me, and an immediate 3rd was telling me to "read and unsubscribe" as there had been a mistake and the person behind the newsletter couldn't manually unsubscribe everyone they'd signed-up.

While Substack certainly removes the hassle of maintaining infrastructure, a dedicated blog still has some advantages - you have full control over design, functionality and monetization options. With a WordPress or similar, you can customize the look and feel completely to suit your brand.

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Dec 27, 2022 · That's an interesting observation. SEO is based on quality, many Substack Newsletters have pretty high and verifiable quality that is starting to be represented in better SEO. Many bloggers literally do the same on Substack that they were doing on Medium or 10 years ago in fact. Long-form highly shareable content.