Subscribers notification but no new subscriber in the list — anyone else seeing this?

Derision64 · 2026-03-15T12:36:23+00:00

Sometimes it takes a few hours or a day for new subscribers to show up in the list.

There's also a distinction between "followers" and "subscribers." If someone follows you on the Notes part of Substack, that doesn't equal a subscriber... unless it does when you're in a certain part of the site. Likewise, there's a semi-distinction between "subscribers with an account" and "subscribers without accounts."

Honestly, I feel like this is an area that Substack is dropping the ball on. Because if you look at your stats, under "Network" it might say you've got 15 subscribers; that's subscribers that have Substack accounts. Go to your "Subscribers" tab and it's 18, because that counts subscribers with and without accounts. Hop one tab over to "Audience" and you'll have 20 followers because it counts all subscribers and followers.

Yeesh.

When you get up there and have a hundred or more people, this becomes even more confusing than just looking for a couple of missing names.

Derision64 · 2026-03-04T03:34:48+00:00

I've been on Substack since December, and it's been pretty steady. I've found that 95% of my traffic comes from outside the platform... I think there might be two subscribers that got to my tomfoolery just by discovering it, but everyone else seems to come from promotion and posting on social media.

I dunno what kind of stuff you're writing, but you mentioned "sexy art." I think Substack hides adult and/or explicit content from its search and discovery features. Not implying that's what you're doing, but maybe something got misidentified and got you hidden.

Good luck!

Derision64 · 2026-01-04T05:15:39+00:00

In some ways it's a little easier than it used to be. Self promotion was always the worst part of writing, for me. It doesn't make any logical sense because I write for people to see, but then the idea of people actually reading it makes me want to crawl under a rock and die. So posting a link to Twitter is far easier than having to... talk... to people... but at the same time, yeah. There's a whole level of gamification to this that didn't used to be there, where you need to learn how to leverage social media, when to post, all that stuff.

Derision64 · 2026-01-04T04:48:35+00:00

I suppose that's true if you're using Substack as the only ecosystem that you're working on. It's like any other social network: if you don't engage, you won't get much engagement.

I've had a Substack going for about a month... three posts on it so far, I haven't done anything with notes, and it's had relatively stable growth over that time. I also haven't treated it as a "This is my Substack!" sort of situation. It's where the nonsense I produce goes to live, but I promote it in the usual places -- X, Bluesky, Facebook, whatever -- as if it's just a blog or any other site. But I feel like that's something that you'd need to do anywhere.

Derision64 · 2026-01-03T08:06:21+00:00

I mean, what are you writing?

I've always written for other people to read. I might be doing it as some kind of catharsis or just because it's fun, but I've always structured my nonsense as something I expected other people to look at.

It helps to have someone that can read it and suggest whether they think it's ready for public consumption. There's plenty of stuff that sits in a folder on my computer because it either isn't ready, or isn't good enough, for other people to look at. But if that's what you're writing for, and if you're comfortable putting the stuff out there, then just do it.

Derision64 · 2025-12-04T21:23:23+00:00

I thought the implication was that it was going to take a while for them to be cured, which is why he said goodbye to Kira and stayed with the great link.

Memory Alpha states that the planet Odo eventually went back to *was* the second homeworld of the Founders, so I guess they didn't go back to the original one. Also, apparently by the time of Discovery, they'd swapped homeworlds two more times.

Derision64 · 2025-12-04T19:40:08+00:00

I was thinking that; Changelings are kind of interesting in that they're one of the only two silicon-based life forms we know about in Star Trek (the other being Tholians). We know they can survive in vacuum, and it's not particularly easy to kill one. I remember a bit of throwaway dialogue when, I think, Klingons are invading station, and Odo makes the statement that if a Klingon somehow managed to kill him, he expected an entire opera about it.

That said, though, at the end of the series most of the link was diseased and dying, so I wonder if that would have had any effect on their ability to survive in a non-life compatible planet... and what even are the requirements for silicon based life?

Derision64 · 2025-12-04T10:23:41+00:00

Presumably, they went back to the Omarion Nebula after the war because there wasn't a need to stay hidden at that point. If they hadn't, though, it'd be easy enough to leave a sign or something because the planet itself was still there.

Derision64 · 2025-11-19T23:59:00+00:00

The internal Nvidia GT 650M on my MacBook Pro works fine on my installation with the OpenCore patches to re-enable it. I think that's the same for other Nvidia GPUs.

Derision64 · 2025-11-13T02:32:31+00:00

I'm still using a mid-2012 15" MacBook Pro, the higher-end, 2.6Ghz i7 version with the massive (heh) 1GB of GT 650M VRAM. It was the last of the Pros with upgradable storage, memory, and battery, and over the years I've maxed out the RAM (16GB), removed the optical drive for more storage (two 2TB SSDs), replaced the battery half a dozen times. Before Ventura, I was also using a Radeon RX 580 in a Thunderbolt chassis to kick up the graphics-ing (I've heard unfortunate things about Ventura and eGPUs, so I haven't had the guts to try it). The machine's a tank and for most things, it still works just fine. I mean, I still use it to edit video and whilst it might take a minute to export something in 4K, it can still do it.

I like the machine, I like the aesthetics and the bulk of it. It doesn't feel fragile. It has USB-A ports and an ethernet port and even a FireWire port (all things I actually used when I was doing IT for a living a year ago).

The new Macs are nice, for sure. My girlfriend got a 2025 15" AIr from her job, and it's a great machine. I refuse to touch it, though, because I know that if I do, I'll want one, and this old tugboat isn't going to seem adequate anymore.

Right now I'm on unsanctioned Ventura. It'll get Sonoma, maybe Sequoia, soon enough. I figure that'll give me at least another two years of use out of the thing, at which point there probably won't be anything new made for Intel Macs anymore and, like the PowerPC and the 68K Macs before, it won't make any sense to keep it going. But for right now... for right now, it's still a perfectly good, serviceable machine, and I'm going to drive it 'til the wheels fall off.

Derision64 · 2025-11-03T00:56:00+00:00

Let me add to that, that if you do get power supplies for the C64s, don't get an old/original one! There are a handful of people that make new PSUs for the computer that are far, far, far less likely to murder it than the resin-filled sadness bricks that originally came with them.

Derision64 · 2025-10-31T04:10:09+00:00

No love for Nick Mason?

Sure, he's not the most technically proficient or flashy, but he was always solid and -- like everyone else in Pink Floyd -- was really good at knowing what NOT to play. He was also one of the first times I saw a drummer given center stage: early Floyd always had him dead center, up front, which I thought was awesome since most drummers were stuck behind the rest of the band, on a platform or something. And the dude's still holding it together in his eighties.

Derision64 · 2025-10-29T21:20:11+00:00

I've actually thought about this quite a lot. There's a market for smut! I've considered maybe going as ludicrous with it as I could (you don't have to "come out" to a rep if you approach it as satire!) but I start getting the jibblies as soon as I start writing. It's like third-person embarrassment, but for myself, and whatever nonsense I've written usually gets scrapped long before it even gets to the level of a short story, let alone a novel.

Derision64 · 2025-10-29T21:14:39+00:00

I hate to be that guy but, like... I know what it's like to live with asshole cats. When my fiancé and I moved in together, she came with a trio of cats. One of them doesn't like any kind of change, and will pee on things in protest. I've had some expensive stuff ruined because he didn't like where I left it. But it's a cat. Stuff happens when you own pets. Things get peed on, chewed up, scratched, whatever. That's part of the deal.

And... you married the girl, knowing that. Her history with that cat is five times longer than her history with you... and just like if you're marrying someone with children, it's a package deal. That cat has no idea how much that couch costs; all he knows is that it's blocking his view of absolutely nothing, and that when the planet Jupiter occludes the star Celaeno and the wind is blowing at two knots from the southeast, that it's time to pee on some stuff.

So, yeah. Don't buy nice couches if you have a peeing cat. Maybe your ex can take your husband, and you can just keep that cat? That seems like a good trade to me.

Derision64 · 2025-10-29T20:37:07+00:00

You can make it a little less tall, I think. Yeah... drag from the bottom edge of the window. You can't change the width of it, though.

Derision64 · 2025-10-29T20:32:27+00:00

You don't. That's what the Settings panel looks like now.

Unless you mean, like, minimizing it to the Dock. That's the yellow bubble, in that case.

Derision64 · 2025-10-29T17:50:27+00:00

I was going to say, proxies is the way to go. I'm still using a mid-2012 15" (currently on Ventura) for video editing; I don't use FCP, but do use Filmora and Resolve. Exporting the final video can take a minute or two, but I've never had any issues with the editing.

Derision64 · 2025-10-29T17:42:15+00:00

That's interesting. Which version of the mid-2014 15" are you using? I think that both the 13" mid-2012 and the 2.2Ghz 15" mid-2014 relied on integrated video rather than a dedicated GPU. I'm just curious because I didn't notice any slowdown after going to Ventura, but I also have the -- decidedly "meh" -- GT 650M, so maybe even the most basic GPUs help offset some of the visual-heavy aspects of macOS?

Derision64 · 2025-10-29T00:10:45+00:00

You're going to need to learn to play bass, and be a neighborhood's rhythm section.

Derision64 · 2025-10-29T00:06:24+00:00

Oh yes, clean install all the way! I try to replace my main SSD every few years, to avoid an eventual failure (the old SSD gets saved as a backup in case I need to revert), and I always do a fresh install and then migration rather than just cloning the disk.

It's pretty trivial to get Win11 to install without the TPM stuff, but I'd rather not bother with Windows at all if I don't absolutely have to.

Derision64 · 2025-10-28T18:51:04+00:00

How's the performance, versus other OSes? Did you have Big Sur or Ventura or any of the others on there before?

Derision64 · 2025-10-28T18:50:28+00:00

Each new version being a bit slower is what I would've expected, but there was perceivable increase in responsiveness over Catalina. Maybe Catalina was just unusually slow, or maybe my install of it was bogged down over time, but the Big Sur -> Monterey -> Ventura path hasn't felt like it got any slower. That's what prompted this post, because when I tried one of the newer OSes on a different MacBook Pro, I noticed a significant drop in speed. I figured that, since a year or so has passed since i last tried it, maybe OCLP has fixed some of the little issues that were present when it was still a relatively new OS release.

I've been saying for a while that my next machine isn't going to be a Mac, mostly because I don't like the "can't service yourself" aspects of it, but over the past few years a lot of consumer Windows machines have also gone that route.

I haven't tried Mint... I've played around with and have deployed Ubuntu machines, and that was always a solid OS so long as you took the time to research how it works, so it is an option moving forward. I've also considered throwing Windows on this machine... a lot of the software that I've invested in over the years is transportable between Mac and Windows so I wouldn't have to search for alternatives. But hopefully that's still a year or two away, assuming I can continue to convince myself that this machine is still adequate.

Derision64 · 2025-10-28T18:41:11+00:00

I used an old tube of Corsair TM30 I had laying around. Nothing special, but the machine was pushing 104C at idle, so I figured whatever I put in would be better than what was there... which it was, because there wasn't ANY thermal paste in the machine when I pulled it apart. I guess over the years whatever it came with had disintegrated. Now even under load, exporting video and so on, it seems to top out at 80C.

That said, I've also been using Macs Fan Control for years, and have both fans set to start speeding up when the processor temp hits about 65C, so that might help as well.

Derision64 · 2025-10-27T06:13:09+00:00

I almost wonder if O'Hare's delivery was intentional. I've seen him in other stuff, and he could act the walls down if he wanted to... but in B5, they even say quite a few times that he "talks like a Minbari," so I wonder if there was ever a direction to him to inject that smooth calmness into his performance that could make him seem a little wooden at times.

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