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Housekeeping: Blog E-mail Subscriptions


Welcome everyone to The Art of Caesura!

Today I have a bit of an odd post. From time to time the background workings of the blog come to the foreground and today is such a day. 

Last week I mentioned that I have been contacted by multiple readers of the blog saying that for the past few weeks they have not been receiving the e-mail notifications of new weekly blog posts that they had subscribed to (and before that they were receiving e-mails only sporadically for posts for several months). 

I have looked into this problem and was surprised that it was much more complicated than I was expecting. It turns out Blogger (owned by Google) used another company (FeedBurner) to manage many blog functions. For reasons that are unclear to me, FeedBurner "turned down" (i.e. began phasing out) some of their functions last year (including e-mail subscription "FollowByEmail", and many of my analytic functions), but they only stopped them altogether recently - hence you guys no longer receiving e-mail notifications of my posts. 

The only work-around is to use a third-party program to do this job. It's all a bit of a balls because I can no longer export my subscriber list - I can't manually re-add people to the new subscriber list, so you guys will have to re-subscribe. I have done a lot of research into this now and have found that the best alternative is called follow.it. It is used in industry, and is secure and does not farm your email addresses off to ad companies. It also won't screw up my blog. 

It is extremely easy to use - I have subscribed myself to test it out. From the homepage of the blog, you click on the "more options" (three horizonal lines) button in the top right of the screen, and just put your e-mail address into the box provided. It will prompt you to go to your e-mail to confirm...and that's it from your end!

Or you can click here.

This should work, but I won't know for sure until we all (hopefully) receive our e-mail notifications next week. Once this happens I will tweek the e-mails received if needed. 

(***UPDATE*** It does work ;) - but if you use Gmail then by default it goes to your "Updates" folder, unless you set it to go to your "Primary" folder. 

This would be a good opportunity for any infrequent followers of The Art of Caesura to join the mailing list if you would like. These weekly e-mails notify you that there is a new post, allow you to read the post in the body of the e-mail and provide a link to the post (click on the post's title in the e-mail). If you subscribe, these e-mails are the only e-mails that you will receive from me. I will not spam you with anything else, nor will follow.it. 

Anyway, sorry for the potentially boring post, but it is an issue that has been bothering some of my most loyal readers for several months now (and causing severe impediment in the past few weeks) so I wanted to let you know what's going on. 

Tune in next week for more miniatures content!




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