Francis Foster

@francisjfoster · Francis Foster · Substack profile · Humor

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Francis Foster has 96,410 followers on Substack as of Oct 31, 2026. On the latest board read, Nov 6, 2026, they were #25 on Substack's Humor Rising board. 46 publications recommend them, 2 of them new in the last 30 days, and they recommend 7.

Followers read 6 days ago · Boards read 80 min ago

Last read Oct 31, 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: 96,410; read Oct 31
Last 7 days: first number on Nov 7
Last 30 days: first number on Nov 30
Subscribers: 89K+; rounded by Substack
Paid subscribers: Thousands; bestseller badge 1,000+
Recommended by: 46; +2 in 30 days
Recommends: 7
Bestsellers rank: none; Rising #25, Humor

Followers by day

Tracking since Oct 31, 2026. This is the first reading. 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.

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 Francis Foster on Substack; they aren't email subscribers.

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Daily readings
Date	Followers	Change	Subscribers	Paid band
Oct 31, 2026	96,410		89K+	Thousands

Leaderboard positions

Board	Rank now	Best on record	Reads on it
Humor Rising	#25	#25	3 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.
Writer	Oct 3107:00	Oct 3113:00	Oct 3119:47	Nov 621:50	Move
Humor Rising		33	33	25	▲8

I read every board once a day.

Recommendations

46 publications recommend Francis Foster; 2 started in the last 30 days. Francis Foster recommends 7, and 2 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

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.

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Recommendations started per month
Month	Started
2024-07	1
2024-10	2
2024-11	1
2024-12	3
2025-01	6
2025-02	3
2025-03	4
2025-04	1
2025-08	2
2025-09	3
2025-10	1
2025-12	2
2026-01	1
2026-02	4
2026-05	3
2026-06	2
2026-07	2
2026-08	2
2026-10	3

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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.