Substack Subscriber Glitch

Forced cancellation?

I’ve worked hard for my 522 subscribers. I’ve been writing since July 04 2022, well more than 100 posts now. My subscriber list shows a steady, slow climb for quite awhile, which I am deeply grateful for. Thank you subscribers.

Which is why it has been alarming, latety having my subscriptions to other writers cancelled suddenly. Not exactly cancelled, their posts still show up on my feed (as far as I know), but then I go to read their post and part-way through I am prompted to subscribe. Not prompted to become a paid subscriber but to subcribe in any capacity, as if I am not. If I try to like the post I’m told I can’t until I subscribe, though I have liked many of their posts. Same for commenting. Several different times I have then tried to subscribe, and I just get kicked back to a subscribe page. More than once I have received an auto generated email from different writers, welcoming me to their substack I have been subscribed to for a long time.

Too, I am not entirely sure I have not been kicked off some substack subscriber lists, as I am subscribed to something like 140 and I don’t always see every post from every writer.

I sent a request to Substack, hopefully they will work out the glitch. This is simply a short post, to let you know what I have been seeing, asking if you have been seeing any of the same.

Substack is an extraordinary platform, a rare oasis of free speech in a world increasingly hostile to free expression. I’m just beginning to believe that I might actually become a paid writer, it is very distressing to imagine then, the loss of subscribers because of some dumb technical glitch. It is important too, I think, to challenge Substack about such things, to maintain the integrity of this place. It would be sad indeed, to lose it for any reason.