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The Substack app is home to thousands of independent writers, creators, and journalists; including George Saunders, Matt Taibbi, Heather Cox Richardson, Elizabeth Gilbert, Nate Silver, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Dan Carlin, Matthew Yglesias, Richard Dawkins, Seymour Hersh, Joyce Vance, Jonathan Haidt, and Roxane Gay.
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In the Substack app, you can:
+ Discover new writers, creators, and journalists
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Feb 25, 2025
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The content is great, but the app and website are frustrating to use. When trying to claim a free post, the website redirects to the app, but the app returns an error. Sometimes, the website states that "teaser posts are not available for this content." I've attempted to claim a free post through email, the website, and the app, but none have worked. It feels like a bait-and-switch, and Substack could be setting itself up for a class action lawsuit.
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Jake
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February 15, 2025
PLEASE FIX THE EPISODE AUDIO!!! You are failing your creators. Newer updates have ruined the podcast audio experience for users. I'm constantly having to close and restart the playback on the clips. Also, please restore the ability to open an audio clip as a full page instead of this nonsense you've forced on users. There is only a tiny sliver of a bar with controls on the bottom of the screen during audio playback. Basically, take us back to the old version and this app will be 5/5 again.
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Nick Luchsinger
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February 4, 2025
Would be a solid app, but years after launch, I still can't even read a footnote in the app without scrolling to the bottom and back up to where I was, every time. Clicking the footnote doesn't work. Please fix basic bugs before launching new features 🙏 BTW, comments would also be more useful/navigable if I could filter for comments where the author responded or liked it.