Can you have too much candy? Oh, yeah!
The one problem with Substack is that it is too easy to subscribe and follow until suddenly you have too many stacks to enjoy. I have some ideas…
Is Substack becoming another Facebook with hundreds of recommendations daily? For new Stackers who are exploring the candy Substack store, it’s too easy to start collecting people recommended by people you’ve never heard of or read. Then burnout and feelings of inferiority bring the reality that you’re lost in the candy store.
Substack has a great feature called Substack Reads, and it seems to me that all recommendations and suggestions to read others’ stacks should be limited to that stack. That would free up the feed of writers you actually subscribe to or follow. It would not have all of the “I love this writer” posts and focus on posts by writers. I guess that is too simple.
I love the people I’m subscribed to—but sometimes they get lost in the mix. Just sayin’. Savoring fewer pieces of candy is more satisfying than eating the whole Halloween bag of candy. Why not show only those you’ve subscribed to first instead of “explore”? I think that is why many unsubscribe and unfollow—to narrow their favorite candy list.
What do you think?
Those are wise comments. It is all too easy to find another sub stacker that is interesting and, as others have said, the inbox gets fuller and fuller and you end up reading fewer contributions than when you first started.
Wise words...thanks.