{"id":21912,"date":"2016-10-25T08:22:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T12:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=21912"},"modified":"2016-10-25T08:24:06","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T12:24:06","slug":"swling-post-exploring-a-new-email-delivery-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/swling-post-exploring-a-new-email-delivery-system\/","title":{"rendered":"SWLing Post: Exploring a new email delivery system"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For the past six years or so, we’ve used Google Feedburner<\/a> as an email distribution system on the SWLing Post<\/em>. Feedburner is\u00a0a bare-bones RSS-based system, but it’s worked quite well–allowing readers to sign up for individual Post<\/em> emails or daily digests. \u00a0It’s also free for both readers and for me.<\/p>\n

However, in the past two months, I’ve received numerous comments from readers and contributors describing very flaky and unreliable behavior from Feedburner.<\/p>\n

Truth is, even when I signed up to use Feedburner, Google had all but abandoned the project support-wise. Many bloggers feel that Google could simply pull the plug on Feedburner with little notice, so I’ve been looking into other options.<\/p>\n

When I update SWLing Post<\/em> functionality, I also upgrade<\/em><\/strong> functionality.<\/p>\n

Over the past few months, I’ve been looking into alternate email distribution systems. \u00a0Almost all of these are paid systems, and I’m only considering those that are reliable and have been in business for a long time. These systems typically charge based on the number of emails delivered per month and the total number of subscribers.<\/p>\n

In the next couple of weeks, I hope to start trial subscriptions to these services and see which one I like best. I’m especially interested in a system that has better formatting than Feedburner (which, essentially, has no<\/em> formatting–!). \u00a0\ud83d\ude42 Once I commit to a system, I’ll import all of the current subscribers into the system and you’ll have an option to adopt it as your new platform. I’ll also post a new sign-up sheet.<\/p>\n

Please be patient as I go through this process–my schedule is jam-packed at the moment, so I’ll be exploring all of this in my spare time.<\/p>\n

If you\u00a0have any email delivery systems recommendations, please feel free to comment or contact me<\/a> directly! \u00a0Thank you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the past six years or so, we’ve used Google Feedburner as an email distribution system on the SWLing Post. Feedburner is\u00a0a bare-bones RSS-based system, but it’s worked quite well–allowing readers to sign up for individual Post emails or daily digests. \u00a0It’s also free for both readers and for me. However, in the past two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[755,5556],"class_list":["post-21912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-swling-post","tag-swling-post-email-delivery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-5Hq","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":49335,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/important-upcoming-changes-to-swling-post-email-newsletters\/","url_meta":{"origin":21912,"position":0},"title":"Important: Upcoming changes to SWLing Post email newsletters","author":"Thomas","date":"June 26, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"If you're one of the 1,700 people who have an email subscription to the SWLing Post via Feedburner, please take note: No more Feedburner In July 2021, the email delivery system we've used for daily email newsletters, Feedburner, is scaling back their operations and will discontinue email delivery. 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