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March 30, 2023
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Please… Suggestion…
Under: DASHBOARD==>POSTS
Currently you have three listing options:
NEWEST/OLDEST/LAST EDITED
It would be very helpful if you could enhance that list with the following options:
VIEWS (Low to high / High to low)
LIKES (Low to high / High to low)
COMMENTS (Low to high / High to low)
SHARES (Low to high / High to low)
It would help us getting a better understanding of the impact of our message… and how our writings are perceived.
That actually should be easy to implement.
Thank you
Alternative Substack Payments Idea Option:
Substack has become the new Town Square for many people across the world. There are so many worthy authors on Substack that I cannot afford to support all of them. I imagine I am not alone in this. Yet I and no doubt many others would still like to find ways to support the authors we value. I am wondering if Substack would consider a Spotify-like subscription option, that I will here call “Substack All-Platform Subscription,” or SAPS. Here is an initial brief brainstorm on how this might world:
1. Monthly SAPS could be offered at various levels, say $25, $50, $75, $100. The subscription would give access to a specified # of article reads, with perhaps some coding to account for “quick-peaking” to determine if an article hasn't been read (maybe 90 seconds or less doesn’t count as a read - the precise time could be dependent on # of words in the article). At the end of each month, the authors whose articles have been read “split the kitty” proportionally to the # of articles per author that have been consumed by the SAPS subscribers.
2. Authors could set a minimum # of regular paid subscribers (for total subscribers, or for each of their subscription tiers), BEFORE they participate in SAPS. This helps them avoid self-cannibalizing their paid subscribers numbers. They may also choose “zero" and participate in SAPS-only payments.
3. SAPS authors can opt in or out of SAPS at any time. The TOS for SAPS subscribers would include this “warning.”
4. Before subscribing to SAPS, readers can be shown the list of all of their currently subscribed authors who are participating in SAPS and those who are not (plus a list of all others who are participating) which will help determine whether they will find the value they are seeking from the program.
5. For authors who are not participating, readers could see (at the author’s discretion), how many more regular subscribers they would need before agreeing to participate in SAPS. SAPS subscribers could enable an option to earmark a portion of their SAPS subscription to the non-SAPS authors they want access to, equal to whichever tier(s) the author chooses for this option. The amount could come with a small discount on the regular subscription cost, in order to encourage crowd-funding of worthy authors who have not yet attained their desired level of income. These amounts would of course be substracted from the total all-platform article reads available for the SAPS subscriber. The benefit here to the site user is getting billed only once.
I conservatively estimate that Substack could double or even triple its income this way, and create support for many more authors.