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Drop Site News has 910,764 followers on Substack as of Nov 1, 2026. On the latest board read, Oct 31, 2026, they were #1 on Substack's World Politics Bestsellers board. 85 publications recommend them, 34 of them new in the last 30 days, and they recommend 3.

Followers read · Boards read

Last read Nov 1, 2026 (UTC). Followers are not email subscribers. Substack lists only the newest 50 recommendations for each publication, so a recommender count of 50 or more is a floor. History starts Oct 31, 2026; Substack publishes nothing earlier.

Followers
910,764
read Nov 1
Last 7 days
first number on Nov 7
Last 30 days
first number on Nov 30
Subscribers
817K+
rounded by Substack
Paid subscribers
Tens of thousands
bestseller badge 10,000+
Recommended by
85
+34 in 30 days
Recommends
3
Bestsellers rank
#1
World Politics

Followers by day

Tracking since Oct 31, 2026. 2 days of readings. Substack doesn't publish past follower counts, so history starts the day I first read a writer and grows by one reading every 3 days (daily if it's on your watchlist). The 7-day change appears on Nov 7, the 30-day change on Nov 30. Recommendation dates below go further back: they're Substack's own.

890k900k910k920k930k Oct 31Nov 2Nov 4Nov 6Nov 8Nov 10Nov 12 12 more days to fill this frame 910,764
890k900k910k920k930k Oct 31Nov 4Nov 8 8 more days to fill this frame 910,764
One reading a day, the last of the day. Marked: leaderboard steps (into the top 25, top 10, or #1). Followers are people who follow Drop Site News on Substack; they aren't email subscribers.
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Daily readings
DateFollowersChangeSubscribersPaid band
Nov 1, 2026910,764+184817K+Tens of thousands
Oct 31, 2026910,580817K+Tens of thousands

Leaderboard positions

BoardRank nowBest on recordReads on it
World Politics Bestsellers#1#14 of 4
Podcasts Bestsellers#63#564 of 4

Rank on each read

Rank on each read of each board. Each cell is the leaderboard rank; empty means not in the top 100.
WriterOct 3107:00Oct 3113:00Oct 3119:47Nov 621:50Move
World Politics Bestsellers11110
Podcasts Bestsellers56616163▼7

I read every board once a day.

Recommendations

85 publications recommend Drop Site News; 31 started in the last 30 days. Drop Site News recommends 3, and 1 of those recommend back. Lists read Oct 31.

The 9 largest publications on each side, by followers. Bigger dot, more followers. Orange: started in the last 30 days. Gray dots: publications I don't track, so no follower count.

When the recommendations started

Jul 24OctJan 25AprJulOctJan 26AprJulOct
Live recommendations by the month each began, using Substack's own start date. Removed ones aren't listed by Substack, so they don't appear. Substack shows only the 50 newest recommenders, so before Sep 2026 (outlined) I see only those from the 6,392 publications whose full lists I read.
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Recommendations started per month
MonthStarted
2024-071
2024-082
2024-102
2024-113
2025-011
2025-034
2025-041
2025-054
2025-073
2025-091
2025-101
2025-121
2026-022
2026-032
2026-041
2026-051
2026-061
2026-072
2026-0912
2026-1040

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Substack lists the 50 newest recommenders of each publication. I add every recommendation found in the full lists of the 6,392 publications I read, so writers with many recommenders may still be missing a few small ones. "Started" is Substack's date.

Who recommends writers like this one

Publications that recommend at least two other World Politics writers with 50,000 or more followers (54 writers in that group), but not Drop Site News.

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