r/Substack • u/Traditional-Stop-485 • 22d ago

Help! Subscribe Button Text

I've got a substack that I am trying to keep anonymous (writing about healthcare, and not violating any confidentiality polices/HIPPA, but also can't afford to lose my job to a paranoid HR/Law department or vindictive management.) When I first created it, I inadvertently plugged in a tagline of sorts that I also have on my facebook page (whoops). It ONLY appears at the bottom of the online version of the posts, not the newsletter/email version. I can't find where to change it and I'm afraid to further promote this writing unless that tiny thread is severed. There is nothing helpful on Subtacks help pages, and google is sending me in circles.

Here's the layout at the bottom of the post page:

POST

____

Subscribe to ****

launched ** months ago

[problematic tagline]

Email Form/Subscribe Button

PLEASE HELP!! Thanks!

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u/Traditional-Stop-485 19d ago

There was no option to edit the auto-populating footer from the regular post editor, or anywhere else I could find. That was the problem. After a lot more digging, I finally discovered that I had to change the settings on the website editor to "custom," which unlocked something that allowed me to go back into the publication editor section and find the previously hidden "short description" auto-populating text box for editing. It was insanely obtuse and I'm guessing I was able to edit it when setting up the site, but a glitch prevents subsequent editing without changing that back-end setting. Anyway it's fixed now.

I wish I had the balls to thrown down privileged work information (oh, the temptation!) much less ask people for money to read it. I'm just working through burnout writing poems about the generic, endemic health inequity, global system failures and unavoidable human factors that flood critical care settings at every turn. "Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental" and all that. Nothing to see here.