Now anyone with a Substack account can post content

Anyone with a Substack account can now publish posts on the Substack web and mobile app, the company announced on Thursday, transforming the newsletter platform into even more of a social network. (Currently, users publishing posts to their profiles from mobile devices can only do so through the Substack iOS app, although Android support is coming soon.)

Substack members can publish content, get paid and free subscribers, and accumulate contributions from their Substack profile without needing to create a post. Creating a publication, however, allows them to take advantage of more advanced features such as a website, multiple admins, and sections. If they decide to start a new one, Substack saysthey will be able to import any subscribers they may have accumulated.

Users cannot make their Substack profiles private, so anyone can follow and read posts. If they want to publish posts to a limited audience, they will have to create and link to a private post on their profile.

Along with these updates, Substack also announced that it continues to work on making the platform more mobile-friendly. Last month, the platform began allowing users to publish full posts on the mobile app. Today, the company revealed that it is also testing live video and in-app payments.