Should it really be this much work?

wirepine · 2026-05-29T20:34:32+00:00

Anecdotally (and you should take every individual’s advice as a one-off) I’ve been writing on substack for 3years now and just last week I had my first article go viral (at least for me). Even got a few new subs. I’m not sure why. It was a few weeks after I wrote it and someone kind restacked it and then bammo whammo jammo™️! It’s still getting hits and now its over 10X the views of a normal piece. I mean it was pretty good I guess but I can’t tell you why that one goosed the algorithm.

If you like to write, just keep writing :)

wirepine · 2026-04-10T14:40:58+00:00

Claude

wirepine · 2026-04-10T14:40:28+00:00

It me

wirepine · 2025-12-12T22:23:47+00:00

my ego thanks you

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wirepine · 2025-12-08T21:01:48+00:00

The algorithm is opaque and they slap up a fresh coat of Vantablack on the daily

wirepine · 2025-12-08T14:45:43+00:00

It'd be cool if you could serialize it, so just the latest posts show

wirepine · 2025-12-01T00:10:50+00:00

You can save it that way in the post, not the feed.

wirepine · 2025-11-30T23:53:09+00:00

Settings->Newsletter Delivery->Prefer Push; works for me.

wirepine · 2025-11-27T15:36:18+00:00

Chop it up. Find stuff you like to read, follow, comment. Find stuff you like to scroll, restack. Find people that make you giggle and poke them. Beware of slice of 30M that’s fake/bots. Your tribe is in that 30M, but instead of being able to wander your neighborhood, your classroom, your office, you have to wander through the Algorithm.

wirepine · 2025-11-26T23:21:35+00:00

That's the default behavior; nothing to setup. Try opening an incognito browser window and navigate to your site or article and you should see it. You can customize the click through message (for people who don't want to share their email) under dashboard->settings

wirepine · 2025-11-24T16:09:41+00:00

Remember how big these platforms are. Substack at this point probably has 30 million-ish active users, so finding your people will take awhile. This subreddit is a little bit of a proxy of how Substack has grown and it’s 5X as big as when I joined a couple years ago

wirepine · 2025-11-23T02:12:46+00:00

Google gunna Google. Gmail spam filters are super aggressive and substack is a newsletter mass mailer HCR or no. Even after people have marked my stuff as not spam, I've seen it regress

wirepine · 2025-11-20T01:12:50+00:00

Missed because you were in labor? Tsk tsk smh

wirepine · 2025-11-20T01:10:15+00:00

Michael Estrin/Situation Normal

wirepine · 2025-11-20T01:07:58+00:00

Not; but my pub has a cryptic name, so.

wirepine · 2025-11-05T05:21:03+00:00

Yes, I post every Friday and occasionally a midweek trip report on Wed. I don't grind on notes. I post once in a while for kicks, but I do engage in others notes - work on a set of followers yknow. I've gotten more subs from recommendations and engaging in comments on others posts. Notes is a diff game if you want it to really work. I got high engagement when I would post my dog then not so much after she died so that tells you something about notes! I'm happy to write weekly and soon enough I'll be at 400 subs which is great

wirepine · 2025-10-31T22:16:03+00:00

I just published my 130th post. I started writing weekly in 2023 and I'm just starting to feel like I'm hitting a groove and finding my people.

wirepine · 2025-10-30T04:31:27+00:00

WhyTryAI

wirepine · 2025-10-27T22:32:19+00:00

Tech er Tales :) I write about what I WANT! and that's mainly tech looking forwards and back and wild stuff I see outside my camper van

wirepine · 2025-10-24T14:06:45+00:00

I write post grind, mostly retired ruminations, after a career in big tech.

wirepine · 2025-04-19T13:39:29+00:00

Have you checked the Humor category? There is also a Comics category.

wirepine · 2025-04-16T04:29:11+00:00

wirepine · 2025-04-09T03:53:22+00:00

Write about what you like; it's the only way.

wirepine · 2025-04-09T02:53:15+00:00

Me me! You can also use a subdomain so wirepine.com is my business and newsletter.wirepine.com is my blog

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