Thanks! Yeah, and it's 2025. This post is almost a year old and while Substack has added a ton of (imo) pretty useless features in the meantime, nothing I mentioned here has been addressed.
4 - Pay for an individual post is really interesting. That would be a step for Substack towards a full e-commerce experience. Makes me think of Gumroad a bit.
The way they jumped into social media features makes me think this would be possible.
Tags on Notes would be useful for similar reasons, too. I'm not sure how messy it makes the world, though, since that's more social media-esque than what you're describing here.
Ah, I only ever use desktop. I'm not saying it's better, just sayin' I'm not sure if I can help. But maybe try it on a computer if you get a chance- maybe it'll be easier to navigate. Nat-vigate?
Great list. They also need the ability to have a post that is for subscribers only. In other words currently we only have two options for posts:
1. Free for everyone (including non-subscribers)
2. Paywalled
I think Substack needs THREE options:
1. Free for everyone (including non-subscribers)
2. Free for subscribers (both free and paid, but not available to non-subscribers)
3. Paywalled
That way, you could have posts that were "teasers" to get people to subscribe but that did not require forking over money. It would help people build their subscriber lists. IMO.
Thanks! Yeah, and it's 2025. This post is almost a year old and while Substack has added a ton of (imo) pretty useless features in the meantime, nothing I mentioned here has been addressed.
4 - Pay for an individual post is really interesting. That would be a step for Substack towards a full e-commerce experience. Makes me think of Gumroad a bit.
The way they jumped into social media features makes me think this would be possible.
Markdown support!
I would love full markdown support. Substack almost supports it.
Currently I use oandoc to convert markdown to html and then open the html in a browser and copy and paste to the substack editor. https://pandoc.org/
Cool! I copy/paste from Obsidian preview which is exactly the same ;)
Tags on Notes would be useful for similar reasons, too. I'm not sure how messy it makes the world, though, since that's more social media-esque than what you're describing here.
When I open my Notes the first thing I see are old Notes, written 20 days ago. I find it hard to locate new ones.
Desktop or app?
app.
Ah, I only ever use desktop. I'm not saying it's better, just sayin' I'm not sure if I can help. But maybe try it on a computer if you get a chance- maybe it'll be easier to navigate. Nat-vigate?
Agree with them all! Especially individual paid posts. Restacking for others to read. :)
A good latex support would be great as well
Ohh absolutely! I forgot that one ;)
Great list. They also need the ability to have a post that is for subscribers only. In other words currently we only have two options for posts:
1. Free for everyone (including non-subscribers)
2. Paywalled
I think Substack needs THREE options:
1. Free for everyone (including non-subscribers)
2. Free for subscribers (both free and paid, but not available to non-subscribers)
3. Paywalled
That way, you could have posts that were "teasers" to get people to subscribe but that did not require forking over money. It would help people build their subscriber lists. IMO.