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Have you had trouble with the custom button not showing up in mobile view? I just added new buttons which look great on desktop but aren't showing up when I view on my phone.

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I haven't tried customizing buttons recently. But I'll experiment and let you know what I find.

Is the text you're using on the buttons especially long? Do the buttons themselves not show up, or just the text? Is there an example you can show me?

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I changed it from Subscribe to Join Now - so no text is not long. Not sure how to share in image here but can send you screen shots. It essentially didn't change for mobile - so looks like the regular Subscribe button.

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Is the page live on your newsletter site? You could email me screenshots at subpub@substack.com. Or you could email the link to a draft of the page.

Incidentally, your newsletter looks very interesting!

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Thank you! And thank you for replying. After we chatted yesterday it magically fixed itself on mobile. Maybe there is a bit of a lag when you make that change. Seems like it took about 24 hours.

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Hey Scott, do you know to edit the leave a comment button?

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How do I create a Subscribe now button on the right hand margin? I've noticed many Newsletters have this but it's not intuitive how to do it.

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Can a customized button be saved, so that you can use it repeatedly on the welcome page, in emails, etc? This seems like it should be pretty easy to do.

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Good thread with useful tips. How do you get that "Ready for more?" banner at the bottom?

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Had another comment, figured out I was just being dumb. Please disregard that one. Thanks for sharing your insight.

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There is usually a 'like' button (in addition to the 'heart' button) on posts I receive from other authors. How do I add a 'like' button? I don't see it in the drop down list of buttons. Appreciate any help.

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Hello, how do I delete the subscribe now button?

I selected "add subscribe button to posts" but I don't like the look of it.

Thanks

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I have tried adding subscribe with caption to my newsletter , but when I check the preview or to the test email I sent , it shows subscribed. Does anyone know what I should do here ?

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How in the heck do you change the caption inside the Subscribe With Caption option? I can't find it for the life of me.

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Any recommendations on how to create a button that triggers "reply to email"?

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Hi, Scott. Thanks for your post. Do you know if the custom links are editable after publishing? It appears I may have an error with one of the links and I'm not finding a way to update the custom button now that it's published. Any ideas?

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I'm having the same problem.

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Scott, If you were a women I would propose marriage. I love the idea of Substack and have been trying to get mine up and running. The documentation on how to do things like buttons Sucks. I have spent 3 days trying to figure out what you explained in 3 minutes. Thank you. Substack should hire you(with stock options) to create a manual. Many people give and never get their substacks up and running.

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way too complicated!

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Way, way, way too complicated. I cannot figure it out at all. Nobody ever has just one button in a post anyway, so how does the link change to the correct button?

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