Substack - what is this "priority" ranking which is default?
A way to implement shadow banning!
12-2025 update:
Recently I've noticed that comments no longer give me clickable links to the user or their blog which is next to their name. Perhaps it's just the browser version as I don't use the annoying app.
It's just like Twitter and Google who regularly break useful features and then never fix the "bug". It's most likely intentional.
There's a new crap feature from Substack to sort your subscriptions by priority (and it's on by default).
There's no logic to it at all as you can see in my screenshots below.
I suspect this is how Substack will shadow ban certain posts that have controversial topics.
Recent - the old default before they added this option. Notice the new articles from this morning.
“Priority” (default) with its illogical sorting and doesn't show posts from the last few days… 🤔
I never even look at that page. I only read posts that come to email. Maybe I'm missing out on some things?
Ah, that makes sense. I just noticed it changed and that I didn’t like how it was sorting things.