As I learn more about it, Substack is much more understandable to me now, but it still comes with a raft of frustrations. Graphics may be my chiefest point of annoyance. Every space on the dashboard that asks you to upload an image will give you size requirements in pixels, but the image, once uploaded and displayed, never looks the way you expect it to: more often than not, the image is just way too small.
Blogger, by contrast, is pretty straightforward in a WYSIWYG sort of way: if Blogger asks that your banner image be, say, 950 × 320 pixels in size, then that's what I upload, and that's what the reader sees. Substack, on the other hand, says "your email image needs to be at least 1100 × 220 pixels," and then, when you open your email, you see a teeny, tiny little thumbnail. So what the fuck's the point of giving me a misleading size requirement? There may be a rational explanation for this betrayal, but I'm used to the WYSIWYG straightforwardness of Blogger. Meanwhile, if your woman demands a ten-inch dick, she'd better see a ten-inch dick.
Substack's other graphics-related problem is that there are different images required for different aspects of your Substack site. The site's "welcome page" gets one image; there's also an author image you can display (optional); finally, there's the email-newsletter image, which is a separate upload. Again, what the fuck? I guess if you spin it positively, it means you can either upload a totally different image for your emailed newsletters or upload the exact same image (standardization); on the other hand, it's a pain in the ass to have to do separate uploads, especially if you have to change your images now and again, as I've had to when I've changed my Substack site's name (I think we're settled now). I only just realized that I had changed over my welcome-page image but not my email-newsletter image. That's fixed now.
Other aspects of Substack make sense now that I'm mostly oriented, but graphics are definitely the platform's main sticking point.
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