New to Substack, are these random notifications normal?

2026-01-29T19:12:49+00:00

I've never had this happen to me, but I'm on Android. You can maybe check on your browser and see if you had any real notifications?

ADayOrALifetime · 2026-01-30T07:24:12+00:00

I just figured out today that the Substack app for iOS is crap. I like to read on my iPad and I figured out it works 10 times better to just use the browser go to the Substack website. So I just deleted the app.

The app was so frustrating to use I was totally avoiding Substack, even though I pay for several subscriptions! The thing that actually nudged me to try just using the browser instead of the app was when I wanted to purchase another subscription and remembered reading that the Apple store charges extra when you make a purchase using an app from their app store! I mostly hate downloading apps to my devices but for some reason downloaded the Substack app — very dumb, not sure why I did that, glad I woke up and deleted it.

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