Substack has really helped clear my writing slumps. Now I find myself juggling 6 or 7 drafts, trying to "stock up" on content. How to promote that content in a way that gets emails on my list, on the other hand... No clue. I hope you get your wish so you can share the wealth, Scott! Merry Christmas!
Actually, I do have a request: how about some feedback from Substack on their categories and getting discovered on their site search. Mine never shows up on Substack searches unless I search for it by name, which makes the point of "getting discovered" through categories pretty useless, imo. Thoughts?
I'm not a fan of Substack's discovery categories. Putting categories first and making search secondary is very Yahoo circa 1999. Making the user guess the category is a problem. Making the newsletters within each category difficult to scroll makes the situation worse. Excluding many newsletters from the entire set of categories makes it worse still. In short, why doesn't Substack just create a decent Google-like search engine for newsletters and posts? I'll ask the people at Substack and see what they think.
I actually started to write a break-down of everything that is broke about search and categories but as a new Substacker I didn't want to sound like a whiner.🤔 I thought maybe there was a secret trick to making it useful lol.
My goal is to recharge over the holidays and to keep growing my Substack in the New Year.
Substack has really helped clear my writing slumps. Now I find myself juggling 6 or 7 drafts, trying to "stock up" on content. How to promote that content in a way that gets emails on my list, on the other hand... No clue. I hope you get your wish so you can share the wealth, Scott! Merry Christmas!
Actually, I do have a request: how about some feedback from Substack on their categories and getting discovered on their site search. Mine never shows up on Substack searches unless I search for it by name, which makes the point of "getting discovered" through categories pretty useless, imo. Thoughts?
I'm not a fan of Substack's discovery categories. Putting categories first and making search secondary is very Yahoo circa 1999. Making the user guess the category is a problem. Making the newsletters within each category difficult to scroll makes the situation worse. Excluding many newsletters from the entire set of categories makes it worse still. In short, why doesn't Substack just create a decent Google-like search engine for newsletters and posts? I'll ask the people at Substack and see what they think.
I actually started to write a break-down of everything that is broke about search and categories but as a new Substacker I didn't want to sound like a whiner.🤔 I thought maybe there was a secret trick to making it useful lol.