One improvement I'd like to see would be an easier process for tagging large groups of people. Tagging one person is straightforward enough--just type an ampersand and keep going until Substack suggests the person you want to tag. But I've noticed that in some of the genre groups, it seems to be correct etiquette to tag all the group members.
I thought that would be easy. I found tag lists for the relevant groups, copied them and pasted them into a Word doc for future use.
Well, note as easy as I thought. The material pastes correctly from one Word doc to another, but when I paste it into a Substack note, it pastes the underlying link, but not the tag itself.
Next, I tried pasting the tag texts to see if Substack autoconverted them. Nope! Clicking on each one caused Substack to attempt to convert that one to a tag, but soon enough, I was confronted with one that could refer to several people. Closing the window with the possible choices causes the note to close. I could probably avoid that, but the process looks fiddly at best.
Today I found a couple notes with tag lists, opened them, right clicked and clicked on "inspect page." My plan was to copy the code I found and insert it into a note using what appears to be an insert code block on the little formatting menu that pops up when text is selected.
No dice there, either. The tag lists displays as text, just as if there were no underlying code. But on the page itself, each tag is a clickable link.
For the moment, it appears the only way is to input each tag individually, one at a time. I've heard other people claim tagging was cumbersome. They weren't kidding.
I suspect the one about more formatting options probably won't happen because posts display better in the app when they are set up as a long, single column. I haven't tried the app myself, though. If it adjusts gracefully to viewing in landscape mode, then the format is less of any issue. I know from checking my website on the phone that portrait view it much more difficult to view effectively.
The Mailchimp reference reminded me of just how bad it was. Charging for unsubscribed users on the (unproven and probably mistaken) assumption, that, though they didn't want emails from us, they'd love to hear from us on social media. That's partly a result of MC trying to become more than just a mailing list provider, but the net result was ridiculous for people who just wanted a mailing list provider.
One improvement I'd like to see would be an easier process for tagging large groups of people. Tagging one person is straightforward enough--just type an ampersand and keep going until Substack suggests the person you want to tag. But I've noticed that in some of the genre groups, it seems to be correct etiquette to tag all the group members.
I thought that would be easy. I found tag lists for the relevant groups, copied them and pasted them into a Word doc for future use.
Well, note as easy as I thought. The material pastes correctly from one Word doc to another, but when I paste it into a Substack note, it pastes the underlying link, but not the tag itself.
Next, I tried pasting the tag texts to see if Substack autoconverted them. Nope! Clicking on each one caused Substack to attempt to convert that one to a tag, but soon enough, I was confronted with one that could refer to several people. Closing the window with the possible choices causes the note to close. I could probably avoid that, but the process looks fiddly at best.
Today I found a couple notes with tag lists, opened them, right clicked and clicked on "inspect page." My plan was to copy the code I found and insert it into a note using what appears to be an insert code block on the little formatting menu that pops up when text is selected.
No dice there, either. The tag lists displays as text, just as if there were no underlying code. But on the page itself, each tag is a clickable link.
For the moment, it appears the only way is to input each tag individually, one at a time. I've heard other people claim tagging was cumbersome. They weren't kidding.
I like all of your suggestions.
I suspect the one about more formatting options probably won't happen because posts display better in the app when they are set up as a long, single column. I haven't tried the app myself, though. If it adjusts gracefully to viewing in landscape mode, then the format is less of any issue. I know from checking my website on the phone that portrait view it much more difficult to view effectively.
The Mailchimp reference reminded me of just how bad it was. Charging for unsubscribed users on the (unproven and probably mistaken) assumption, that, though they didn't want emails from us, they'd love to hear from us on social media. That's partly a result of MC trying to become more than just a mailing list provider, but the net result was ridiculous for people who just wanted a mailing list provider.