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Can you? I tried to do this, even asking their AI support and it replied with something like, "Substack was built to help writers build their audience. If you are not looking to build your audience, Substack is not the right product for you." So lame.

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Writer Dashboard -> Settings -> Publication details -> Subscribe prompts on post pages (on/off).

Subscribe prompts may include modals, pop-ups, and other ways to encourage readers to subscribe to your publication.

(There are several other toggles that control similar settings as well).

You absolutely can not disable the full screen “welcome” popup. You can only change the message displayed there. This is unrelated to the in post popups.

For landing on an author's home page, that seems to be true, and I hope they allow disabling it later. For article links, you can -- when you publish an article and Substack offers links for social media, there's a checkbox to disable "show welcome page to new readers".

Wow. That is really buried. Never would've found it without your guidance. Thank you!

"Substack was built to [100x investment for investors]. If you are not looking to [help us 100x our revenue], Substack is not the right product for you"

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