Subparstack

I created a Github repo where we can report and track Substack's bugs, share usage tips, hacks and code, and analyze its implementation and security.

If you already know how to use Github, head to subparstack/subparstack. Otherwise…

…we have

• A public bug tracker for Substack

• Review of the comments app and study why it performs so badly

• JavaScript snippets to help you use Substack

• Discussions! Like a Meta-substack

I’d like to develop documents (markdown in the top level of the repo) that

• Analyze the behavior of the Substack’s webapp so we can understand what went wrong and what we can do to work around it or maybe even get it fixed

• Show the sausage making

• Analyze security concerns

If you want to contribute, just ask.

If you work for Substack and would like to collaborate and you welcome fair criticism then please join the repo and help us get those issued disposed one way or another, invalidate our critiques, explain what happened, etc.

If you work for Substack and don’t feel inclined to engage on Github to get this stuff fixed, let’s tall about it in the comments. Or you can contact me directly. Maybe I can report on our conversation in my blog? Or we can do a one-off pod-style recording? That could be fun.

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UPDATE Nov 2021

Just a couple of days after I launched Subparstack, Substack added this cute ASCII-art to their app so that it displays when you open the browser dev console.

That’s good thinking! Maybe they can hire me on the cheap to fix it for them, because they have other priorities to attend to, like getting rich quick and the comments app is good enough for that purpose.