Fascinating post Mike, thanks for sharing your perspective; I've just shared this post on Substack's internal company Slack so my colleagues can read it
This post came at a perfect time, and I enjoyed it a lot. I'm hanging on at Twitter, dipped my toes in Mastodon, and spent most of today getting setup up on Substack.
I can’t figure out what should be simple. WHERE is a text book to “ Just click on “RSS” for the source of your choice, then copy the URL from the browser and paste into Substack. Or, you can find the RSS link on your favorite blog or news site.)”
It's a nice starter set of RSS news links. On that page, find the news source you like and click on "RSS" next to it. That will open the page. Then click on the URL at the top and copy. Now come back to Substack.com, click on the three little dots on the left, choose "add RSS feed" and past in the URL. Do this for each news source.
I haven’t been able to add rss feeds from the app or website. I can’t even see the add rss feed or the three dots. If adding feeds isn’t as intuitive as say Reeder or Feedly I can’t see why someone would use this over those for their rss needs. Or Apple Podcast for podcasting or Twitter for well social. I hope that Substack becomes what you’re implying on here but between subbing and paying for everyone you’d want to read from to hard to use tools I just don’t see it.
I would like that merged stream. I'd even like a Discovery stream that showed real time posts from people I don't follow... but that's probably a bit much for some people.
That's perfectly in line with what social networks normally do. It should exist, but be optional. Users should say "show me publications I might like in the following categories."
That’s a fantastic suggestion. I hope they implement something like it. Just having a platform that would pay attention to expressed interest in specific categories would be revolutionary by itself.
So good
Great informational on Substack. Thank you.
Fascinating post Mike, thanks for sharing your perspective; I've just shared this post on Substack's internal company Slack so my colleagues can read it
I'm new around here and pondering how I might or might not use Substack, so this helped! Thank you!
This post came at a perfect time, and I enjoyed it a lot. I'm hanging on at Twitter, dipped my toes in Mastodon, and spent most of today getting setup up on Substack.
Great! Thank you!
I can’t figure out what should be simple. WHERE is a text book to “ Just click on “RSS” for the source of your choice, then copy the URL from the browser and paste into Substack. Or, you can find the RSS link on your favorite blog or news site.)”
I was linking to this site:
https://mediagazer.com/lb
It's a nice starter set of RSS news links. On that page, find the news source you like and click on "RSS" next to it. That will open the page. Then click on the URL at the top and copy. Now come back to Substack.com, click on the three little dots on the left, choose "add RSS feed" and past in the URL. Do this for each news source.
I haven’t been able to add rss feeds from the app or website. I can’t even see the add rss feed or the three dots. If adding feeds isn’t as intuitive as say Reeder or Feedly I can’t see why someone would use this over those for their rss needs. Or Apple Podcast for podcasting or Twitter for well social. I hope that Substack becomes what you’re implying on here but between subbing and paying for everyone you’d want to read from to hard to use tools I just don’t see it.
Oh I can do that! I’ve been morning the loss of Google Reader for years. News is what I most often used RSS feeds for. Thanks!!!
Dang, “text box” location when I’m logged in.
I would like that merged stream. I'd even like a Discovery stream that showed real time posts from people I don't follow... but that's probably a bit much for some people.
That's perfectly in line with what social networks normally do. It should exist, but be optional. Users should say "show me publications I might like in the following categories."
That’s a fantastic suggestion. I hope they implement something like it. Just having a platform that would pay attention to expressed interest in specific categories would be revolutionary by itself.
Totally agree.