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Dear Substack, What happened to the "Featured Posts" section in the various categories? It seems when new categories were added, "Featured Posts" sections went away along with ability to scroll through the leaderboards. The new categories were supposed to help writers get more subscribers and it seems to me at least that the reverse has happened.