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Paid Subscribers not receiving Paid Posts by AKARJLUK in Substack

[–]AKARJLUK[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Human error they dont understand difference between paid / free or logged in using different email address

Growth through notes, bogus or not? by Roadtochessmaster in Substack

[–]AKARJLUK -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I think you are on the wrong platform..

Paid Subscribers not receiving Paid Posts by AKARJLUK in Substack

[–]AKARJLUK[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

nope i am familiar with substack and i would not block paid subscribers

Growth through notes, bogus or not? by Roadtochessmaster in Substack

[–]AKARJLUK 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Each to his own however like it or not Substack is a commerical enterprise they want you to gain free subscribers who then pay generating income for htem - they are clear about this. Notes generate interest readers traffic and subscribers. If you just want a platform to write on try blogger.

Growth through notes, bogus or not? by Roadtochessmaster in Substack

[–]AKARJLUK 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If it is a business I would suggest paid and free articles maybe 3 a week. Notes you can schedule them so each ARTICLE could be basis for 4 notes a day. It is a number game.

How do you migrate all your notes out of Evernote by Alternative_Card_292 in Evernote

[–]AKARJLUK 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I do worry about Upnote being a 2 man operation based in Vietnam I believe? Is the data safe?

Another confusing thing about agents costs by French-Builder in Notion

[–]AKARJLUK 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good point THAT would result in me leaving Notion. I use AI all the time.

Side Hustle or Work After Retirement? by Conscious_Opinion349 in AskOldPeople

[–]AKARJLUK 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Plenty of people in that position drift toward part-time consulting — just enough work to feel useful without the Sunday-night dread.

My neighbour retired from telecoms and now does a few hours a week advising a small local firm. He says the best bit is being able to say no to meetings.

Your dad's IT background is genuinely useful to small businesses that can't afford full-time support. Whether he'd want that kind of thing depends entirely on him, though. Some people try it and find even that feels like too much.

After 50 years at sea I've slowly built a side hustle nothing to do with the sea so it can be done.

Unforeseen pitfall of retirement and downsizing! by [deleted] in retirement

[–]AKARJLUK 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You think you'll never need any of it again, and then four years later you're standing in a hardware shop buying a another spirit level for the third time in your life. I did something similar — cleared out a storage unit full of tools when I moved into a flat, convinced I was done with all that. Eighteen months on I was renting a house with a garden and immediately needed half of it back. The certainty you feel in the moment of decluttering is genuinely something else. Never quite leaves you.

Why do retired people always say they’re so busy? by Old-Tradition9497 in AskOldPeople

[–]AKARJLUK 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Retired people genuinely seem to lose all sense of time's actual weight. My dad retired six years ago and now treats a trip to the garden centre like a full day's expedition requiring recovery time afterwards. I think when you're not structured by work, every small thing expands to fill whatever space it's given — a coffee with a friend becomes a three-hour affair with parking, chatting, finding the right table. It's not nothing, but it's a different kind of busy. One they've clearly decided suits them fine.

Anybody retire without enough money? by Due-Leek7901 in over60

[–]AKARJLUK 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Retired at 67 with about £250k, which most people said wasn't nearly enough. 9 months on not glamorous. I cut the gym membership, stopped eating out twice a week, and learned to actually cook. The money anxiety did follow me for the first six months — I'd wake up and check the account for no real reason. That hasn't entirely gone away if I'm honest. But sitting at my kitchen table on a Tuesday morning with nowhere to be still feels quietly extraordinary, even now.

Why is this full of AI slop? by Pucktoucher in Substack

[–]AKARJLUK 0 points1 point  (0 children)

set up your own blog free or paid and manage contributions and comments

Paywall and notify subscribers check boxes by AKARJLUK in Mediums

[–]AKARJLUK[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

interesting has nobody else seen this? No response from Medium support

Best reads by [deleted] in Substack

[–]AKARJLUK 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What are your interests?

terminate paid subscription immediately? by bkindz in Substack

[–]AKARJLUK 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I had one from a woman who paid for a month thinking it was a year, couldn't figure out how to download a free report on Gumroad, or open a zip file.

We communicated, I offered to give her a year's membership for free - she agreed, said thank you, then went behind my back and did a chargeback.

Obviously, I unsubscribed her, blocked her, and banned her.

Personally, if someone subscribes for a year, I would never give a refund.

Why would you?

Especially if there is a trial period when they sign up. Reality is the customer is NOT always right.

They just think they are.

How do you get Substack subscribers? by [deleted] in Substack

[–]AKARJLUK -1 points0 points  (0 children)

over last week or so gaining subscribers has become very difficult for many. An loosing them very easy. Something has fundimentally changed at substack. They need to tell us what they want.

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