A Pause

FicStack curation posts started in October 2025, and have been produced weekly up until 3 days ago. We split the curators into two teams, each working a week on, a week off, to find gems to share with you all.

This entire project has been a labour of love, from building FicStack.com itself, to finding other souls along the journey to bring the curation arm of the project into being.

Whether through lack of interest on Substack, or its algorithm, engagement numbers have dropped dramatically over these past 6 months.

Active curator numbers have dropped, twice pushing us to try to find replacements, which has proved difficult.

I have made the difficult decision to pause FicStack curation posts for the time being.

In addition, the public side of the FicStack Discord will also be shuttered. There is very little activity and interaction on the server.

FicStack.com will remain running.

I would like to thank all curators and their team leaders for their work. Also, to all who have interacted with the curation posts, thank you.

I hope you understand my decision.

— Gary