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Is the explore section being worked on? So far it's hard to find other comedy writers

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We're definitely thinking a lot about how to surface more categories, and comedy is one that's been asked for. Stay tuned

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Sounds good!

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Linda, maybe you can help me. My posts aren't showing on the Inbox page. It has happened a few times. It works, until it doesn't. What gives?

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The comedy writers are being taken to black sites and dealt with until they become Substack marketing writers.

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I had a hard time finding fiction writers, too, and even now that I have found quite a few, I wish I could search by genre.

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Mar 14Liked by Linda @ Substack

Awesome thanks for sharing. I started not long ago so I'm excited to branch out and increase engagement. It's great to know there's so many paths. Cheers!

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So many great resources shared here! I found Substack to be such a great place for growth, networking and community building and managed to grow my newsletter from zero to (almost) 1k subscribers in 6 months with all subscribers apart from around 20 coming from the Substack network.

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It's been very difficult the get found on the investing side of substack. We've been very consistent for over 2 months, posting high quality content and still haven't seen much growth. What are we doing wrong?

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Sadly the scammers are beginning to join Substack to catch the unwary. Probably the same ones who lurk on Skype.

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A very insightful piece. Thanks for all the tips.

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Very helpful recap of everything in one place. Thank you!

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Thanks for putting this together. When I click on that leaderboard link via the app I get taken to a page that just says error. Not sure what’s wrong.

Either way I loved this post . It hadn’t occur to me to embed someone’s post in a post. Seems like that’s perfect for collaborations.

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Thanks for the info!

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Thank you for sharing this, Linda. I am an Italian fiction writer and am just starting out with a serialized novel on my brand new Substack. It looks like it's still a niche audience in Italy — I see lots of super interesting content about news and culture but very few Substacks offering fiction in Italian — but I will try to make the best out of this great advice!

Francesco

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Hello,

Sorry, I have no idea where else to post a feature request/ bug report. Would it be possible for mid-article paywalls to not disable footnotes from the non-paid sections of articles? Thank you.

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Hey Linda, How do I reach out to you privately? Would absolutely love to have a quick chat for some advice!

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Substacks Chatbot FAQ feature now requires you to read and accept the TOC. HOWEVER, IT DOES NOT WORK ON FIREFOX and so I am forced to bother you.

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Where can we ask questions to substack? Not to a bot.

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Can anyone explain to me why I cant open links to a browser on substack? This is my only issue with the platform and app. Many articles require me to open links to save for reading later on external browsers. So i read in my browser when otherwise I would prefer to read on the app.

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