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> Also, for a "quick win", have you considered adding the ability for authors to generate unique URLs for sharing posts? Ideally with separated analytics.

That's a cool idea! Is your intended use case being able to easily spin up different URLs so that you could share them in different places and see which ones drive the most traffic / subscriptions?

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That's right, the current origin system just isn't as granular as I'd like it to be. IE: it tells me I got X views from reddit, but if shared it in 3 subreddits, I don't know which ones were more effective.

Being able to share it with a single person and know if they actually opened it or not would be another use case.

Also, seeing the stats for the last 7 days and the last 24 hours (source, subscriptions, etc.) would allow writers to get a sense of what they recently did in terms of marketing that may be working best. 30 days is too long to be able to see if a particular action had any impact.

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