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Kathleen Taylor's avatar

Your new green background is very pleasant and gentle on my eyes.

I cannot precisely interpret the message you received but I'd guess someone who doesn't have time to read may have deleted a number of free Substack subscriptions so he doesn't have to pay a storage fee. (That happened to me recently and in response I deleted a number of subscriptions myself.)

Kitsune, Maskless Crusader.'s avatar

Interesting, I didn’t change background color. Didn’t know that I could.

After getting the second one, I am thinking that it is people who no longer want my emails. I too get more than I can handle but just unsubscribe, not block the address. Does unsubscribing block the address?

BetterOffRed's avatar

I read your posts (usually) on the mobile web address, not on the app. The background is a gentle turquoise and typeface in white. Has been for as long as I have seen.

Unique, and as KTay mentioned, easy on the eyes.

Thought you'd purposely set this!

Bill Rice has been conversing on substack demon actions -- you might ask him about your boggle.

Kitsune, Maskless Crusader.'s avatar

I may have set it when I first started, it is a color I like, but did not know I could change it and did nothing to change it.

I follow Bill Rice, subscribe actually. I responded to some of his earlier posts on his loss on readership thinking it more likely due to saturation. Not so sure of my argument now.

Kathleen Taylor's avatar

I don't think so.

Btw, your substack is the only one I've seen with white lettering on green background.

Kitsune, Maskless Crusader.'s avatar

I am thinking this as both have come right after I posted on topics I know to be controversial amongst those on our side.

The background and coloring of my posts that you remarked upon, is this a recent change?

Kathleen Taylor's avatar

NOTE: I would have no idea how to change the background color myself but I did notice that Meryl Nass has an orange background and Sheryl Attkisson has a purple background, so apparently it's possible to personalize your own substack.

Kathleen Taylor's avatar

Yes. The distinctive, pleasant blue-green background is new, to me at least, as I was here a day or two ago when it was the same as always.

Btw, this afternoon I could not access my Substack app at all despite trying several times to reply to a DM from a friend. Eventually I got a message that I had to "update" my app (by downloading whatever it was). So, something apparently has changed within the app to have required that.

Kitsune, Maskless Crusader.'s avatar

I may have been able to select a color or theme when I first began my substack a couple of years ago, I do not remember. I do know that I did not intentionally change anything and that I have always seen the teal background with white lettering.

Also, most other’s subatacks display on my iPad as mine does, teal with white. Recently, a couple of occasionally displayed differently.

Kathleen Taylor's avatar

That is surprising to learn.

(In any case, you picked a good color.)

Bare-Faced Plague-Spreader's avatar

I'd like to know what this means as well, because I have never received anything like this.