I do follow you on twitter but I HARDLY EVER go to twitter, so I’m on camp “post everything here please, the more the merrier.” Let me know what to click on your poll for your accounting !
I'm in a similar position, but am going there more often now that censorship has eased. I still don't like Twitter very much and continue to love, love, love Substack.
Twitter let’s me in sometimes but when I want to look at something a friend has posted that they disapprove of it asks me to log in and when I do it says account already exists.
You can x-out of those log in prompts and continue for much of thread - but it will eventually limit your visibility. And "follow" here is meant technically - correct? - not just read/view sans account. To follow el gato (in this sense) you do need an account.
Ditto for me - I only go to Twitter to see what specific people I follow are posting and have pared down my following list significantly (like under 60). I prefer Substack by many miles.
I'm currently locked out as the Bird does not recognize my username and for the life of me I cannot figure out how to speak/chat with a person (even a bot) to help me. So I uninstalled the app and can again read tweets. I'm also in the post everything on Substack
I can't make the surveys on Substack work for me. They hate my computer. But you needed a third option.
I technically follow you on Twitter, but I don't go on that often, so if you put anything on Twitter exclusively, I'll like as not not see it. I'm sure I'm not the only one in that position.
I can get substack to load on safari most days, a lot of days (as a writer) I can’t see data they present. I downloaded firefox and the substack website works fine there. I don’t use the ap. If that helps!
It will load on my new computer in my office, but not on my old laptop, which is the one I prefer to be at, in the kitchen/dining area with my cup of coffee. So you're right.
Yikes, I hope you get the Stripe situation sorted quickly.
I've noticed a substantial number of subscription cancellations due to billing failures (maybe 60 or so in the last 6 weeks?). I find it bewildering that neither Substack nor Stripe notifies the customer when their card has failed. It just keeps retrying and then eventually cancels after a certain number of failures. I have manually followed up with a few individuals I know would not want their subs cancelled but don't have the time to chase down every single one.
el gato, if you are in communication with Stripe and/or Substack about this, you might suggest that they test the cards on file *before* subscription renewals go through and notify the customer if the card has failed so they can update the card before the renewal is attempted.
I mean, they have the *&T%$%^% expiration date right there alongside the card info. It would take minutes to design an app to scan expiration dates on renewals prior to processing, and send an email to the email address tied to the account. There are mom and pop vendors using this technology. Sheesh.
"I've noticed a substantial number of subscription cancellations due to billing failures..."
" ... billing failures...." ???
I wonder....
I am sure stripe has many clients and it was not set up recently. Renewal is so basic that if it is hard to believe it was due to technical glitches in the matrix.
I think in this case it is simply due to the card on file being expired or having been canceled due to fraud, and the subscribers just forgot to update the card on file since many of these are for annual subscriptions and were set up a year+ ago.
I follow on both and enjoy both formats for different reasons. I do enjoy the short, reactionary, often trolling design of twitter. Also the immediacy of posts. Substack is more, I'm going to take a break and read an essay.
I'm newly using the Twitter I created 2 years ago solely to watch a volcanic account. I follow you there,but I prefer the less frenetic more thoughtful group here on the stacks. Please post more of your short form stuff here!
I actually prefer not having to carve out 10-20 minutes to read and analyze a post,nk matter the author.
You can still read any bird despite your suspension. Bookmark them.
Use Opera browser and turn on its free VPN. Access the bird as a site. Find the accounts your want to read. Bookmark them. Then access those bookmarks via your suspended account.
I am talking as a PC user only.
The bird is still the place to read the latest infor. You should note that many birdsters are not on other platforms or very infrequently.
Telegram is among the best for heavy-duty reading.
Bird, Substack and Telegram - in that order - are my main sources of info.
Yes but a headstrong Irish temper makes my only position eff them not one single click to the site since my banning. All my tech needs are nicely managed by hand holding crew skilled in all things web related. I use Firefox & have since 2004ish in Beta.
For about 18 months I was using Telegram but there was some problem my cyber angels had w my something so that was deleted around Thanksgiving & hoping to get that back in the near future. I'm in NYC and old fashioned and happy to be getting more in the subway & select voices but big thanks for caring! <3
I retweet you so tryin' to do my tiny, tiny part. Wherever you post, I'm with you.
Funny about that Stripe thing. When I began setting up my teeny, teeny Stack, I was a bit leery of them and decided not to bother with the microscopic amount of filthy lucre I might possibly be able to earn from it. Enough entities, as I presume, already able to mess with bank accounts. Interesting to hear that they too are morons in dealing with what I'd think is a simple transaction, multiplied.
I follow you occasionally on twitter, though I am not signed up. Good quip about Christopher Wray's duty at Davos, btw.
In a similar vein to the Mark Spitz story, I read that Arnold Schwarzenegger and many of the other first wave of body builders used to train at the same gym. Arnold used to roll in and regale the others with fabricated tales of overeating. He would tell them that he ate a whole pie, 5 donuts, a tub of ice cream...any food thought to be forbidden in the circle of serious lifters. Of course, he never did. He wanted the others to think he did so they would, after seeing that his body changed little after allegedly overindulging, break their food discipline and pig out of junk food, thereby setting back their training for the next competition.
That fun fact explains a LOT. I'm sitting here shaking my head side to side, wondering how in the world we're going to overcome that kind of (innate?) human gullibility...
Answered no as my acct has not found "amnesty" to date. However, I was following that account prior to "targeted abuse" accusations of which zero citation has been made... wen class action qui tam?
I do follow you on twitter but I HARDLY EVER go to twitter, so I’m on camp “post everything here please, the more the merrier.” Let me know what to click on your poll for your accounting !
Same here. The best truth is on Substack. Thank you, el gato malo.
I'm in a similar position, but am going there more often now that censorship has eased. I still don't like Twitter very much and continue to love, love, love Substack.
I concur.
Twitter is the entire world yelling at each other, "ACTUALLLLLLYYYY!!!"
Pretty much worthless for anything except not finding pictures of Damar.
THIS is the way. (IMHO)
Ditto. My time is valuable & substack is worth my time unlike twitter.
Twitter just feels like scrambling around in a half empy box of stale crackerjack. Hate it.
Not on Twitter yet, but thinking of joining just to support Elon Musk's pushback for free speech. But I greatly prefer Substack as a medium.
Twitter let’s me in sometimes but when I want to look at something a friend has posted that they disapprove of it asks me to log in and when I do it says account already exists.
You can x-out of those log in prompts and continue for much of thread - but it will eventually limit your visibility. And "follow" here is meant technically - correct? - not just read/view sans account. To follow el gato (in this sense) you do need an account.
I barely look at Twitter but I follow you. I find the bird a poor style of communicating big concepts
Ditto for me - I only go to Twitter to see what specific people I follow are posting and have pared down my following list significantly (like under 60). I prefer Substack by many miles.
Same here
Same boat: I follow you but don't actively use twitter; I voted "no." Thank you!
Me too. Haven’t gotten into the Twitter habit but look for your posts on Substack at least once a day!
Ditto!
ditto
I second this.
same here!
I'm currently locked out as the Bird does not recognize my username and for the life of me I cannot figure out how to speak/chat with a person (even a bot) to help me. So I uninstalled the app and can again read tweets. I'm also in the post everything on Substack
Mustaches also helped with careers in '70s porn flicks....
Ron Jeremy approves this comment.
Now THAT was funny!
ACK...I'm going to beg my hubby to shave...
Well, ya may want to get one last moustache ride out of him before he does - just for old time's sake :)
🤔🤣
Helped mine at college..
jus' sayin' lol
"By the next year, all the men in the Russian swim team had grown mustaches."
as had the Russian women
Behahaha
I can't make the surveys on Substack work for me. They hate my computer. But you needed a third option.
I technically follow you on Twitter, but I don't go on that often, so if you put anything on Twitter exclusively, I'll like as not not see it. I'm sure I'm not the only one in that position.
We’re many I think
Substack surveys do not work on Chrome.
Worked for me on Chrome.
It's okay, though. Once the Mail-in ballots finally get counted, we'll all appear to be enthusiastic Twitterers.
So true. I'll have to experiment on my new computer and see if it's just the age of the programs.
Let me know if you need me to submit a vote on your behalf. *nods*
Try Brave. No problems and much more secure.
And I can't get Substack to load on Safari. Too hilarious. But thanks for reinforcing that it's not just me.
I can get substack to load on safari most days, a lot of days (as a writer) I can’t see data they present. I downloaded firefox and the substack website works fine there. I don’t use the ap. If that helps!
try using the brave browser.
brendan eich (who founded mozilla/firefox) produces it.
it's a great product and has a ton of built in security, privacy, and ad blocking.
i have been using it for years and really like it.
https://brave.com/
I have been using brave for a couple of hours now and I think I’ll keep it! Thanks again
I’ll take a look. Thanks!
It loads on safari for me
It will load on my new computer in my office, but not on my old laptop, which is the one I prefer to be at, in the kitchen/dining area with my cup of coffee. So you're right.
I do feel the same way—comfy spot, decaf for me
No social media. Got off of FB and ig when they changed their terms. FB seems to think it’s cool to tap into my phone and any cpu that you sync to.
Honestly, one of the best things I ever did.
I loathe twitter.
Ditto. While I appreciate the thread reader app for helping out here, I still don't find it best to read in-depth discussions there.
Yikes, I hope you get the Stripe situation sorted quickly.
I've noticed a substantial number of subscription cancellations due to billing failures (maybe 60 or so in the last 6 weeks?). I find it bewildering that neither Substack nor Stripe notifies the customer when their card has failed. It just keeps retrying and then eventually cancels after a certain number of failures. I have manually followed up with a few individuals I know would not want their subs cancelled but don't have the time to chase down every single one.
el gato, if you are in communication with Stripe and/or Substack about this, you might suggest that they test the cards on file *before* subscription renewals go through and notify the customer if the card has failed so they can update the card before the renewal is attempted.
I mean, they have the *&T%$%^% expiration date right there alongside the card info. It would take minutes to design an app to scan expiration dates on renewals prior to processing, and send an email to the email address tied to the account. There are mom and pop vendors using this technology. Sheesh.
I know, right?
I'm just guessing here, but it wouldn't surprise me if these problems were not a mistake.
"I've noticed a substantial number of subscription cancellations due to billing failures..."
" ... billing failures...." ???
I wonder....
I am sure stripe has many clients and it was not set up recently. Renewal is so basic that if it is hard to believe it was due to technical glitches in the matrix.
I think in this case it is simply due to the card on file being expired or having been canceled due to fraud, and the subscribers just forgot to update the card on file since many of these are for annual subscriptions and were set up a year+ ago.
Thanks. For not tearing stripes off me for my (plausible) speculation.
😆
I follow on both and enjoy both formats for different reasons. I do enjoy the short, reactionary, often trolling design of twitter. Also the immediacy of posts. Substack is more, I'm going to take a break and read an essay.
this kinda of opinion is so 1995. It's 2023 you have to love everything about one platform, and hate everything about the other platform.
Love the sarc
I'm newly using the Twitter I created 2 years ago solely to watch a volcanic account. I follow you there,but I prefer the less frenetic more thoughtful group here on the stacks. Please post more of your short form stuff here!
I actually prefer not having to carve out 10-20 minutes to read and analyze a post,nk matter the author.
Banned by Twitter in 2020 and won't use a platform that prohibits my voice glad very you're here!
Pamela,
You can still read any bird despite your suspension. Bookmark them.
Use Opera browser and turn on its free VPN. Access the bird as a site. Find the accounts your want to read. Bookmark them. Then access those bookmarks via your suspended account.
I am talking as a PC user only.
The bird is still the place to read the latest infor. You should note that many birdsters are not on other platforms or very infrequently.
Telegram is among the best for heavy-duty reading.
Bird, Substack and Telegram - in that order - are my main sources of info.
Yes but a headstrong Irish temper makes my only position eff them not one single click to the site since my banning. All my tech needs are nicely managed by hand holding crew skilled in all things web related. I use Firefox & have since 2004ish in Beta.
For about 18 months I was using Telegram but there was some problem my cyber angels had w my something so that was deleted around Thanksgiving & hoping to get that back in the near future. I'm in NYC and old fashioned and happy to be getting more in the subway & select voices but big thanks for caring! <3
I wonder if you had read what the Firefox people said about Trump?
Brave is my main one; I also use firefox set to no tracking and wipe history upon exit.
subway is nice. :)
I am in sydney, australia.
Nope not a clue about their politics only that it works well for me & cyber angel approved! :~)
same, i follow you but almost never go to twitter. so best here. Thanks! You're the best!
I retweet you so tryin' to do my tiny, tiny part. Wherever you post, I'm with you.
Funny about that Stripe thing. When I began setting up my teeny, teeny Stack, I was a bit leery of them and decided not to bother with the microscopic amount of filthy lucre I might possibly be able to earn from it. Enough entities, as I presume, already able to mess with bank accounts. Interesting to hear that they too are morons in dealing with what I'd think is a simple transaction, multiplied.
I follow you occasionally on twitter, though I am not signed up. Good quip about Christopher Wray's duty at Davos, btw.
In a similar vein to the Mark Spitz story, I read that Arnold Schwarzenegger and many of the other first wave of body builders used to train at the same gym. Arnold used to roll in and regale the others with fabricated tales of overeating. He would tell them that he ate a whole pie, 5 donuts, a tub of ice cream...any food thought to be forbidden in the circle of serious lifters. Of course, he never did. He wanted the others to think he did so they would, after seeing that his body changed little after allegedly overindulging, break their food discipline and pig out of junk food, thereby setting back their training for the next competition.
That fun fact explains a LOT. I'm sitting here shaking my head side to side, wondering how in the world we're going to overcome that kind of (innate?) human gullibility...
Answered no as my acct has not found "amnesty" to date. However, I was following that account prior to "targeted abuse" accusations of which zero citation has been made... wen class action qui tam?
was it true that Mark said that or that the stache reflects the water? 🤔🤣
No idea but as a man with a full beard (or a real beard as the wife calls it) I can testify that a beard creates drag when swimming.
A proper study would be a good way to earn the IgNobel-prize Ithink.
But, your beard is not a drag on your relationship! :)