I've received complaints from readers about having to download the Substack app on their phones in order to comment on Notes. I just sent this complaint to Substack Support, and posted this same comment on Notes:
I'm getting lots of complaints from my subscribers about Notes, because it requires you to download the app if you want to join comments and other features.
Many of my subscribers are, like me, past their prime age-wise -- read: in their 70's and 80's -- and they don't do everything on their phones. There is no way to download the Substack app onto Windows computer, to my knowledge, so they can't use Notes fully and participate fully.
If there is a way to put the Substack app on either a Windows or Apple computer, please let me know how to do it.
In fact, I don't have the Substack app on my windows computer, and my computer is the main way I access Substack and Notes, so I cannot use the comments, and I'm one of your relatively successful writers.
Oh, this is cool. Substack will let you comment in Notes on smartphone only via app. The house policy here is no app when a browser can do the job (for control over tracking and other security matters; the purpose of apps is to hoover up personal data). So I'm as shut off from comments in Notes as I was in twitter, which I never joined. A bit more time in my day.
This is a revelation to me. I had no idea what twitter looked like. To me it's a collection of freestanding links like https://mobile.twitter.com/NormOrnstein/ Will Subtack make individual Notes entries accessible that way?
Seems to me that Substack communicates well with active account owners, not so much with civilians. We live with it, e.g., in undisclosed forum options discovered by accident, pased along by word of fingertip. Notes is way more complex than a forum but with similarly absent guidance.
[Taegan Goddard, an internet pioneer, is one of my top reads every day, but is uncharacteristically making a real nuisance of himself figuring out how to best use this new toy. Please forgive—he's really one of the good guys and won't do this forever.]
My highly inexpert advice: Try to pocket your expectations. Besides looking at what's in the Home and Subscribed sections on the main screen, click the Explore option [at left on my android smartphone Notes screen] and take a look inside the categories that run across the top. At least a distraction from the confusing ui.
I've received complaints from readers about having to download the Substack app on their phones in order to comment on Notes. I just sent this complaint to Substack Support, and posted this same comment on Notes:
I'm getting lots of complaints from my subscribers about Notes, because it requires you to download the app if you want to join comments and other features.
Many of my subscribers are, like me, past their prime age-wise -- read: in their 70's and 80's -- and they don't do everything on their phones. There is no way to download the Substack app onto Windows computer, to my knowledge, so they can't use Notes fully and participate fully.
If there is a way to put the Substack app on either a Windows or Apple computer, please let me know how to do it.
In fact, I don't have the Substack app on my windows computer, and my computer is the main way I access Substack and Notes, so I cannot use the comments, and I'm one of your relatively successful writers.
Consider this a complaint about Notes from me.
Lucian K. Truscott IV
Oh, this is cool. Substack will let you comment in Notes on smartphone only via app. The house policy here is no app when a browser can do the job (for control over tracking and other security matters; the purpose of apps is to hoover up personal data). So I'm as shut off from comments in Notes as I was in twitter, which I never joined. A bit more time in my day.
I guess like any other web business, they're in it to monetize it.
am a subscriber but when I go to notes I don't see yours. FAQ is no help
It's like Twitter. It's an ongoing stream. You can either scroll through it or search for my name.
This is a revelation to me. I had no idea what twitter looked like. To me it's a collection of freestanding links like https://mobile.twitter.com/NormOrnstein/ Will Subtack make individual Notes entries accessible that way?
Seems to me that Substack communicates well with active account owners, not so much with civilians. We live with it, e.g., in undisclosed forum options discovered by accident, pased along by word of fingertip. Notes is way more complex than a forum but with similarly absent guidance.
[Taegan Goddard, an internet pioneer, is one of my top reads every day, but is uncharacteristically making a real nuisance of himself figuring out how to best use this new toy. Please forgive—he's really one of the good guys and won't do this forever.]
My highly inexpert advice: Try to pocket your expectations. Besides looking at what's in the Home and Subscribed sections on the main screen, click the Explore option [at left on my android smartphone Notes screen] and take a look inside the categories that run across the top. At least a distraction from the confusing ui.
It's a kind of copy of Twitter within the Substack architecture. It's in beta, and they're still working on its features. Stick with it.