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"I’d like... to be able to add your own newsletter to a category rather than it being curated by the Substack team (what’s that about them not having an editorial stance?)"

"When the gods wish to punish us, they merely answer our prayers." Self-published books on Amazon had the ability to self-categorize, but it led to all kinds of nonsense of people mis-categorizing their books to get a high ranking in a less competitive category. So this is not a tenable idea, sadly, if one wishes categories to actually mean something.

And getting rid of the front page altogether to avoid even the slightest hint of "editorializing" as you accusingly put it seems overkill for a very reasonable policy, considering the alternatives. The front page is not part of one's actual publication anyways - it's for all intensive purpose an external advert.

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