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Thank you so much for this post! You have no idea how you have “educated” me and made me more confident in “swimming” across the platform of Substack!

I have said this before and I repeat You are a GEM!! 😘

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Am glad it was helpful! Thank you for the kind words.

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Absolutely. Sincerity is the best policy. 🤗

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In building out our new Members’ Corner, I've discovered that one of the biggest challenges for many of our Projectkin.Substack.com members has been coming up with images that help tell the story. This post is now one of my favorite referrals to show people just how easily it can be done.

🤫 A related trick is to realize that you do NOT have to choose the first image in your post as the social share image. You get a chance in settings to select one of the other images in your post, OR upload a specific one for sharing. That's crucial since the (landscape preferred) image can make all the difference in the visibility of a post.

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Thanks, Barbara! Appreciate the feedback!

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Thank you Jayshree - this might be fun to play with the grandkids. D

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lol. Sure is!

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Feb 15Liked by Jayshree Gururaj

A caveat: if your publication has low subscriber count, you get low quality images (the threshold seems to be 100 but there might even be several).

For examples, see: https://substack.com/@ratsays/note/c-48834968

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Feb 15·edited Feb 15Author

I saw no connection to subscriber count or free/paid subscribers as I used it sub-100 too, when I first started on Substack - not sure if it is the prompt or the basic quality. I would be surprised if Substack has implemented such a gated feature!

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Feb 15Liked by Jayshree Gururaj

Added fresh examples below that note.

I'm still not 100% sure there is a threshold (I'll know soon :) but there is a difference.

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Feb 15·edited Feb 15Author

Interesting. If this is a gating criterion (layer of diffusion models?), it is strange, but why? What does Substack gain, especially if it is not transparent to a user? Is it a cost saver? But the feature is hardly used as far as I can see, and there isn’t even good documentation on it. In any case, as I show in my post, there are better free image generators online. Good catch!

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Feb 15Liked by Jayshree Gururaj

Well, I guess they wouldn't want people joining just to generate lots of pictures for outside purposes, so some gatekeeping might be needed. However weird it's tied to publications, not user accounts.

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Feb 16·edited Feb 16Author

They have the info that the user has multiple pubs too. Hmm. Still surprising, as it can be an incentive for new writers to add more subscribers through good visual art selections. It may be gated to weed out less serious writers, who don't put in the effort to grow on the platform and a min of 100 subs is considered to be a serious publication? lol. Pure conjecture again. Well, it would be nice if they explained more given Substack is still considered a growth 'startup.' raising funds, and growing revenues.

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