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The Substack app is home to thousands of independent writers, creators, and journalists; including George Saunders, Matt Taibbi, Heather Cox Richardson, Elizabeth Gilbert, Nate Silver, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Dan Carlin, Matthew Yglesias, Richard Dawkins, Seymour Hersh, Joyce Vance, Jonathan Haidt, and Roxane Gay.
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Where independent Journalism thrives! I love this app for news that hasn't been cherry picked by the oligarchs running corporate media in the US. I gave it 4 stars simply because you can't upgrade to a paid subscription directly in the app. I'm not going to the website just to spend money. Not having the option to upgrade to paid from the app itself is losing the app and its creators money. It's 2025. Nearly all apps let you pay in the app itself. Get it figured out.
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Jake
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February 15, 2025
PLEASE FIX THE EPISODE AUDIO!!! You are failing your creators. Newer updates have ruined the podcast audio experience for users. I'm constantly having to close and restart the playback on the clips. Also, please restore the ability to open an audio clip as a full page instead of this nonsense you've forced on users. There is only a tiny sliver of a bar with controls on the bottom of the screen during audio playback. Basically, take us back to the old version and this app will be 5/5 again.
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John
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March 2, 2025
Dysfunctional. Tapping a Notes notification does not take you to that note. App does not allow editing comments. Does not keep running in background. Good luck cutting and pasting to/from another app. Plus many other things that don't have basic function. Its awful. I love the platform, but please fix this app instead of rolling out more and more features. Or just make the mobile website more functional. It does many wacky, frustrating things as well.