Good to know, Bin. Truthfully, I read you when you talk about your Substack, but I am less inclined to when you discuss Medium, since I no longer spend time there. Perhaps my readership reflects that reality? Interesting to read.
Bin this was actually fascinating to know! I’ll keep this in mind when I get larger, if I get larger. I remember when I only had ten and thought I was a rockstar.
Yes, as time passed, you’ll definitely grow larger. Sometimes it might spike too, but always good to go in after a while to do some cleaning once a while.
Bin, your results are very consistent with mine when I pruned 25% of my list. My open rate, views and delivery rates all went up. Views increasing was the big surprise. Apparently, when you do a large prune like we did, Substack’s algorithm resets for your content. It sees you suddenly lost a big portion of your audience and it adjusts.
On the plus side, is sees you are still getting engagement even though your audience fell, so it rewards that by increasing your engagement metrics. The downside will likely be that you will see your number of new free subscribers decrease for 2-3 weeks. Substack will begin to lower where it slots your publication on Recommended lists. But if you continue to engage and publish at your normal schedule, your number of free Subscribers will return to normal levels in 2-3 weeks.
If anyone else wants to do a prune as we did, I would advise them to be super careful about pruning low/no activity users who joined from Substack. Substack seems to sometimes show subscribers who are actually active as being 0 stars. Those who joined from outside Substack, it seems to so much better with accurately showing their activity levels.
Good to know, Bin. Truthfully, I read you when you talk about your Substack, but I am less inclined to when you discuss Medium, since I no longer spend time there. Perhaps my readership reflects that reality? Interesting to read.
Good to know, as from the data it does shows that every time I write about Substack the views are 10-20% higher.
You be seeing you more, I guess.
As for Medium I’ll try to shift it to the other publications since growth on Medium is pretty hard lately.
Bin this was actually fascinating to know! I’ll keep this in mind when I get larger, if I get larger. I remember when I only had ten and thought I was a rockstar.
Yes, as time passed, you’ll definitely grow larger. Sometimes it might spike too, but always good to go in after a while to do some cleaning once a while.
Bin, your results are very consistent with mine when I pruned 25% of my list. My open rate, views and delivery rates all went up. Views increasing was the big surprise. Apparently, when you do a large prune like we did, Substack’s algorithm resets for your content. It sees you suddenly lost a big portion of your audience and it adjusts.
On the plus side, is sees you are still getting engagement even though your audience fell, so it rewards that by increasing your engagement metrics. The downside will likely be that you will see your number of new free subscribers decrease for 2-3 weeks. Substack will begin to lower where it slots your publication on Recommended lists. But if you continue to engage and publish at your normal schedule, your number of free Subscribers will return to normal levels in 2-3 weeks.
If anyone else wants to do a prune as we did, I would advise them to be super careful about pruning low/no activity users who joined from Substack. Substack seems to sometimes show subscribers who are actually active as being 0 stars. Those who joined from outside Substack, it seems to so much better with accurately showing their activity levels.
I did needed the reset since both of my notes and posts are stuck at same level for a long time.
What I believe is the one that need to see us will come find us again.
While I didn’t have time to check all the 0 stars, for the one I saw was okay for me to removed them.
I try to use my memory to reflect if I recognize them, even for the one I do, I deleted them as well.
What excites me more is articles living longer since I post once a daily for about a year now.
About time to make a shift.
@Bin Jiang, I would be honored to be the first person and subscriber entrusted with removing my inactive subscribers from my list.
I deeply value your informative articles and the empowering skills you share.
Your voice matters to me, because you have provided my first real opportunity to discover and develop my passion for writing.
With that, I am ready to begin.
Always wish you a great day and lots of stuff to write about.
Thank you for all that you have done for me.
You’re welcome, you did most of the work.