I’m typically a pretty late adopter, and most of the new features Substack is rolling out seemingly every week are all going into the “I don’t have time or energy to learn a new thing” bucket. But in true fashion, I finally decided to take a look at this whole Substack chat thing, and it turns out it’s kindof what I’ve been trying to do with my weekly discussion threads, but easier. So…I’ll concede that this feature might be something to utilize.

My Thursday threads are prompts that I set up and that paid subscribers can comment on, but they leave something to be desired. Subscribers can’t ask questions at times other than when those posts are published, and you can’t share your own photos (something I tried to do with this thread, but it wasn’t very elegant logistically).