How can you see how many unsubscribes you get on Substack?
I always get a bunch of unsubs on the days I publish but can't tell how many without solving:
unsubs since send = subs at send + adds since send - total current cubs
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Would be nice if we could see unsubs easier and be able to track as % over time. Fun to know what pisses people off or makes them bored.
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BTW, If you are new to writing a letter unsubs are natural. Many times people sign up based on rec without knowing your stuff and when they get an email be like this isn't what i wanted. Shouldn't be discouraging.
But also curious how experienced writers think of it
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Yeah, I think bright-siding the analytics is a bad move long-term. You drive up the high-churn revenue from newbies trying it out, but lower long-term quality yield from developing writers made of sterner stuff
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If bright-siding analytics (nice term) "works" I'd be curious what that means anyway. I'd be surprised if it actually created self-deception and if it did, jeez what are we made of
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I suspect it’s just a lazy reporting design pattern they didn’t put much thought into
I personally like seeing decent unsubscribe spikes and sometimes write inaccessible posts just to nudge lightly attached subs out. Prefer readers with an accurate idea of what they’re getting
totally agree...I'm actually interested in culling my list just to remove the lightly attached (again nice term) but don't want to boot the false negatives...
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whenever i set up a series of filters i always find people who shouldn't have been caught in it and it worries me that I'm booting others wrongly but just didn't happen to know them to know it was a wrong-boot...
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