Did you ever see a T-shirt emblazoned with the words: “Think. It’s Not Illegal…Yet”? I remember the first time I saw that and my thought was “Gee, that’s an overreach”. But my second thought was ”Maybe not…Remember the book 1984…Remember the book Fahrenheit 451?” Do high school and college students even read those anymore? Were they banned? I’m new to Sub-Stack. I’d heard about it for several years but I am a satisfied reader, happy I took the plunge and signed up for a few free subscriptions after hearing a commentator on a news channel. And what’s so wrong about “talking heads” anyway? I say they are “thinking heads”! I even pay for a couple subscriptions because I want to support these diverse writers who think independently and aren’t dependent on a mega-corporation owned by an authoritarian billionaire. Try it! It’s not illegal yet! It’s uncensored thinking that’s written and updated often — you don’t have to wait for the book.

I truly love Substack. It has been a great platform and really helped me grow but this app… Please for the love will you guys please add the ability to write and publish and interact in a more cohesive fluid and easily interactive way I feel like the app is just utterly useless at the moment. I want and I’m looking for something similar but more beside of or a kin to what discord has done in the voice and video communications department, and community building. I hope that Substack one day adds the ability to stream live publish more fluently on mobile ads more features, and improves layouts templates and customize ability. I truly believe in Substack as a viable and truly revolutionary platform as opposed to having 25 or 30 other social media websites that you have to constantly post to for algorithmic likes. Please get to work on this app. It is nearing the middle of 2024. You have a great great possibility to be the it platform.

OK I will change fro 2 stars to 3. I am still trying it, but really. Inconsistent appearance web and within the app.😵‍💫….. Easy to get started…. But user interface is confusing. Please just a bit more work would make such a difference. An app for readers and writers…. Reading other people’s ’publications’ is relatively easy, but creating your own is a bit of a chore since you never know where you are within this app. For example clicking on “settings” can give you two completely different screens depending where you started… I think. No manual. Search for help via Google etc. and you get offers to subscribe to someone’s sub-stack publication that will help you use sub-stack. If they tried to write a manual they would see how flawed the UI is. Also, pushes unwanted publications …. A serious no-no. You apparently can’t say ‘don’t do that’… you can only unsubscribe from every one of them only to have them replaced by another batch when you log on again. Overall, Is is a great idea… help writers connect to their audience in a coordinated manner. Several well known bloggers/writers use it. So far, I like the idea, but not the implementation. NOTE: some of the reviews here in the App Store refer to specific publications/blogs not to the app itself. ?? AND ALSO….. Your ‘BIO’ can only be 250 characters! Really. At First I thought is was 250 words. Nope. 250 characters 😏