Notifications!
Recently, I have been lamenting the fact that many long time readers and commenters have stopped coming to TSP like they used to (I'm looking at you Robert, Courtney, Blair or Lisa). I think there are two possible explanations for this.
- They got tired of reading what I have to say.
- It is hard to remember to come to TSP
And it quite obviously cannot be the first one, so it must be the second one! Last night I decided I needed to fix this, so without further ado (and inspired by Peter), I give you:
TSP email notifications!
Yes, that's right, you can now get spam an email whenever I
post! This should make it easier to stay up to date with what is going on
in my very, very interesting, fascinating and envious life!
*applause*
To signup is sort of easy (sorry there isn't a web form!), you simply send an email to add-me@thescruffypirate.org, and you're all set!
27 December 2009 08:56pm UTC • 161 views • 10 comments
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Carpenter Courtney
27 December 2009 09:51pm UTC
I love the notifications. I am too lazy to go to websites; I like everything important to filter into my life through my email inbox.
Maybe I'll even send you a personal response via email some time!
Robert
28 December 2009 12:14am UTC
I still visit, I just tend not to be logged in. I'll try clicking the log me in automatically box and see if that helps.
Robert
28 December 2009 12:18am UTC
Also, your site has made it back onto my Chrome most visited / new tab page. I don't know that it ever really left, for a while for some reason I had duplicates of a couple sites on there.
Peon Peetie
28 December 2009 03:37am UTC
Be careful! Once I made websites on avalantern, everyone stopped coming!
Boatswain The Fool
29 December 2009 12:42am UTC
Recently, I have been lamenting the fact that many long time readers and commenters have stopped coming to TSP like they used to (I'm looking at you Benjamin).
Boatswain The Fool
29 December 2009 12:53am UTC
Oh, and you know what would be slick? E-mail notifications when you get messages (and potentially e-mail notifications when there are comments, ... and some option like a digest, so you can see everything that happened in a day).
For those that want just posts and comments, there is always Benjamin's RSS feed, which you can turn into e-mails using a feed-to-email service, like this one.
Dread Pirate Benjamin
30 December 2009 04:44pm UTC
Peon Peetie: I'm okay with that! Just as long as they keep reading! Plus, my guess is that if more people sign up for the notifications (long time regular readers included) then the more commenting that might happen. I think often times maybe people have an opinion on a post but it was so old, so they don't comment. Now if they can read the post in an email they can read it right away and comment without feeling way behind!
That's my hope any way!
The Fool: Those are some good ideas!
Dread Pirate Benjamin
30 December 2009 04:48pm UTC
I just now got the "Feed My Inbox" name for that service you linked to. That's witty!
Dread Pirate Benjamin
30 December 2009 04:50pm UTC
Robert: yeah, I sometimes get duplicate entries in my "top sites" tab (in Safari). Its really frustrating!
Swabie Scabbie
3 January 2010 07:45am UTC
I still read tsp, but my automatic login stopped working when you switched over to openid, and for some reason I can't use yahoo.com as my openid, so I'm rarely logged in.
Also, I didn't understand the captioning system you implemented a couple years ago until about 5 minutes ago, and since captions were my favorite part of the site, my participation has waned without their allure.