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# If Substack wants to improve their reader experience, I have one very specific request
- URL: https://birchtree.me/blog/if-substack-wants-to-improve-their-reader-experience-i-have-one-very-specific-request/
- Published: 2023-08-10T20:18:09.000Z
- Updated: 2023-08-11T02:34:37.000Z
- Author: Matt Birchler
- Tags: Links, #Import 2025-03-29 19:29

[Jay Peters: Substack Wants to Make Itself a Better Place for Readers, Not Just Writers](https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/10/23827490/substack-better-readers-writers-newsletters?ref=birchtree.me)

> Substack wants to make the platform a better place for readers and will be adding features to its reading apps so that they “feel increasingly useful and fun,”

My top suggestion with a bullet is to stop having this modal appear every single time I read a post from a newsletter I’m not subscribed to. It’s even worse when I subscribe via RSS, so I’ve already subbed, even if they don’t know it.

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