Jay Rooney

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Jay Rooney has 2,022 followers on Substack as of Oct 31, 2026. On the latest board read, Nov 6, 2026, they were #31 on Substack's Games Bestsellers board. 33 publications recommend them, 2 of them new in the last 30 days, and they recommend 10.

Followers read 7 days ago · Boards read 2 h 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: 2,022; read Oct 31
Last 7 days: first number on Nov 7
Last 30 days: first number on Nov 30
Subscribers: 1.7K+; rounded by Substack
Paid subscribers: none shown
Recommended by: 33; +2 in 30 days
Recommends: 10
Bestsellers rank: #31; Games

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 Jay Rooney on Substack; they aren't email subscribers.

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Daily readings
Date	Followers	Change	Subscribers	Paid band
Oct 31, 2026	2,022		1.7K+

Leaderboard positions

Board	Rank now	Best on record	Reads on it
Games Bestsellers	#31	#31	4 of 4
Games Rising	#67	#67	4 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
Games Bestsellers	32	32	32	31	▲1
Games Rising	94	93	93	67	▲27

I read every board once a day.

Recommendations

33 publications recommend Jay Rooney; 2 started in the last 30 days. Jay Rooney recommends 10, and 7 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
2022-04	1
2022-05	4
2022-06	3
2022-07	1
2022-09	1
2022-11	1
2023-01	2
2023-11	1
2024-02	1
2024-04	1
2024-06	2
2024-07	1
2025-01	2
2025-02	1
2025-03	1
2025-09	1
2025-12	1
2026-01	4
2026-04	2
2026-10	2

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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.