When editing These tips apply to editing articles on a desktop PC with a browser. I don’t use the app. When editing an unpublished article, if you click the left arrow in a circle in the upper left of the edit window, you can go back to your dashboard without publishing the article or setting a publish date and time. The article, if never published, will appear under “Drafts”.
"After your article is published you can make changes to it for about 2-3 weeks, I’m not sure of the time frame. After that you cannot change it but you can add addendums to a comment of the article."
I'm not sure why you're experiencing this—I have never had issues with updating previous posts, no matter how old. I had to do this recently after PayPal canceled me and I had to remove the PayPal donate button from all past posts.
I had this experience towards the end of September 2022 I believe. I made an update to an article (about 4 weeks old at the tme) and tried to save it and got a specific message that was something like "This article is too old to update."
Oh! That is a Substack glitch. When you click Update, it sometimes pops up a message saying, “The post is out of date” (or something like that). Usually, you just need to click the ‘X’ to close that page and return to the editor, then make some superficial change (e.g., add a space and then delete it), and then click Update again, and it will work. Sometimes, it takes a few tries, but it eventually sorts itself out.
I commonly use the app to edit. I found I needed to shrink the keyboard a bit to get some editing features to work on Android. Could be just my phone size, it's on the smaller side.
I usually prepare drafts with Open Office, Word if on my tablet. Then I copy/paste the draft into Substack. The free version of Grammerly, which has saved me from publishing many typos and grammatical embarrassments, works fine with Substack.
This lets me first get the benefit of what Open Office or Word catches. The draft can be imported to the free desktop version of Grammerly before copying/pasting into the Substack editor.
Grammerly desktop doesn’t auto-update, so check for newer versions occasionally. My older version started glitching recently—probably because of my tinkering with utility programs and not Grammerly’s fault. I did an Uninstall/Reinstall, and was very pleased at improvements in the newer version. The free account with Grammerly lets you keep your settings, so nothing was lost in the update.
I prefer to keep drafts on my computer. No time limit on getting to them, and it doesn’t matter if they get lost in the shuffle for awhile. That cuts both ways: I don’t have Substack pushing me to get them "out the door”, which encourages procrastination, perfectionism, and quality.
Didn't know this feature existed until a couple weeks ago:
https://support.substack.com/hc/en-us/articles/360037466012-How-do-I-export-my-posts-
😃🙏
"After your article is published you can make changes to it for about 2-3 weeks, I’m not sure of the time frame. After that you cannot change it but you can add addendums to a comment of the article."
I'm not sure why you're experiencing this—I have never had issues with updating previous posts, no matter how old. I had to do this recently after PayPal canceled me and I had to remove the PayPal donate button from all past posts.
I had this experience towards the end of September 2022 I believe. I made an update to an article (about 4 weeks old at the tme) and tried to save it and got a specific message that was something like "This article is too old to update."
I think if you regularly update that post it probably resets the timer. Maybe Substack can tell us how long we have before it gets fixed as permanent.
Oh! That is a Substack glitch. When you click Update, it sometimes pops up a message saying, “The post is out of date” (or something like that). Usually, you just need to click the ‘X’ to close that page and return to the editor, then make some superficial change (e.g., add a space and then delete it), and then click Update again, and it will work. Sometimes, it takes a few tries, but it eventually sorts itself out.
Thank you!
Maybe if you keep editing it periodically, or have it pinned? I've been successfully adding to this post for a couple months https://davenarby.substack.com/p/covid-19-vaccine-damage-repair-protocol
See my response to Bacca400—it’s just a Substack bug and can be worked around per my instructions above.
Thank you.
I commonly use the app to edit. I found I needed to shrink the keyboard a bit to get some editing features to work on Android. Could be just my phone size, it's on the smaller side.
I usually prepare drafts with Open Office, Word if on my tablet. Then I copy/paste the draft into Substack. The free version of Grammerly, which has saved me from publishing many typos and grammatical embarrassments, works fine with Substack.
This lets me first get the benefit of what Open Office or Word catches. The draft can be imported to the free desktop version of Grammerly before copying/pasting into the Substack editor.
Grammerly desktop doesn’t auto-update, so check for newer versions occasionally. My older version started glitching recently—probably because of my tinkering with utility programs and not Grammerly’s fault. I did an Uninstall/Reinstall, and was very pleased at improvements in the newer version. The free account with Grammerly lets you keep your settings, so nothing was lost in the update.
I prefer to keep drafts on my computer. No time limit on getting to them, and it doesn’t matter if they get lost in the shuffle for awhile. That cuts both ways: I don’t have Substack pushing me to get them "out the door”, which encourages procrastination, perfectionism, and quality.