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I looked at this author's other posts, and I sort of understand why he's so angry. He complains again in April about lack of discovery on Substack (aka 'nobody'
by giftedhorse 3y ago
I looked at this author's other posts, and I sort of understand why he's so angry. He complains again in April about lack of discovery on Substack (aka 'nobody's reading my stuff').
But are the posts worth recommending? His posts are all snippets of some sort of book (or play?) that he's writing. Example - his latest post is titled "Empathy No. 123 01/11/03, Roderick bedrm. 2:00 PM (approx)". It's a few sentences of dialog that have zero context. Even if these posts were recommended, what would you guess the clickthrough rate for a title like that is? I'd say that Substack's recommendation algorithm is doing just fine not recommending these posts.
Sure, Substack could probably do better at discovery. But there are other possible explanations for "nobody's reading my writing" than simply "Substack sucks".