I don't use the app and won't, however hard they push it. The fact that they push you to the app relentlessly shows how much this is for them and not for you.
This is so depressing! The enshitification of Substack shows how little respect they now have for the authors and their subscribers despite their claims.
So you…. decided to punish the writers you like to spite the app you don’t? And then decided to write about this… _on_ the platform you’re not happy with? Agreed Substack has made some shite choices recently but… really?
i think it is worth sharing to our readership about the nuance here. there are a lot of dark patterns and deliberately deceptive the substack product makes in lots and lots of pockets of the product. sunlight is the best disinfectant. and as for the part where @felix is unsubscribing from things as he isnt getting the emails, that is a real and actual consequence of the substack decision... pretty clear, linear logic for me to see.
I had the exact same vs experience, and I’m glad it wasn’t just me! But I know for certain I didn’t choose that setting myself—it automatically opted me in to the dumb “smart” setting.
There should be a global preference in your User Profile where you can set this and at each new subscription, that preference can be changed. And you should never have to Opt Out of ANYTHING like when you’re subscribing to a new Substack and the Recommended other stacks are already selected…
I don't use the app and won't, however hard they push it. The fact that they push you to the app relentlessly shows how much this is for them and not for you.
This is so depressing! The enshitification of Substack shows how little respect they now have for the authors and their subscribers despite their claims.
It wouldn’t be difficult to have a setting where we can choose which newsletters we want in email and which we want only in the Substack inbox.
So you…. decided to punish the writers you like to spite the app you don’t? And then decided to write about this… _on_ the platform you’re not happy with? Agreed Substack has made some shite choices recently but… really?
i think it is worth sharing to our readership about the nuance here. there are a lot of dark patterns and deliberately deceptive the substack product makes in lots and lots of pockets of the product. sunlight is the best disinfectant. and as for the part where @felix is unsubscribing from things as he isnt getting the emails, that is a real and actual consequence of the substack decision... pretty clear, linear logic for me to see.
I've heard this from many people and most will probably just shrug and unsubscribe, understandably, same as you. Not great!
I get the emails but do not use the app. Every email now pushes you to get the app. Bah humbug!
“Smart” notifications…
I had the exact same vs experience, and I’m glad it wasn’t just me! But I know for certain I didn’t choose that setting myself—it automatically opted me in to the dumb “smart” setting.
There should be a global preference in your User Profile where you can set this and at each new subscription, that preference can be changed. And you should never have to Opt Out of ANYTHING like when you’re subscribing to a new Substack and the Recommended other stacks are already selected…