A few years in the past, Blogger discontinued the follow-by-email widget. That was a bummer for a few of my family and friends (and me), however I lacked the technical know-how to repair it on the time.
| My dad despatched me a shirt lately. It reads: “That is What I Do – I Learn Books and I Know Issues.” He is so candy. The ever rising lava lamp choir is within the background. 2/7/2023 |
Blogger additionally modified the structure of the touchdown web page once I signal into my weblog. Previously I’d land on the “Studying Record” and see all the beautiful new posts my weblog buddies had revealed. Today I land on a listing of my very own posts upon sign-in. The “studying checklist” has been relegated to the underside of the dashboard…the place I’d overlook about checking all of it too usually. I received fairly out of contact with my weblog buddies and, unusual as it might sound since I’ve by no means really met any of them, these folks imply so much to me.
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| A screenshot of the brand new subscribe by electronic mail widget. It’s situated with the “tags” and “archive” hyperlinks on the sidebar of my weblog. This screenshot additionally captures my propensity to run my telephone battery all the way down to 1% earlier than charging it… I wish to “reside on the sting,” as my buddies have stated. 😉 |
Quick ahead to January and I resolved to lastly crack this nut. After studying some tech articles and tutorials, attempting to determine some minor HTML coding, checking Blogger message boards and help pages, and an entire lot of googling I discovered one thing that takes care of each issues for me. It’s referred to as “follow.it” and it’s a free RSS feed/reader. I have been testing it for the previous month and am fairly pumped about it. I feel it’s going to work!
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| A screenshot from my electronic mail exhibiting what a brand new put up will seem like when delivered to my inbox by the brand new RSS feed. |
When somebody enters their electronic mail within the widget on the sidebar of my weblog they’ll begin to obtain the posts through electronic mail. In the meantime, I’ve populated my “observe.it” feed with the URLs for Teresa’s blog, Margo’s, Lisa’s, and so forth and so forth. Now their new posts are emailed to me the subsequent day.
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| My first ever Grasshopper. Matt is changing into fairly the house bartender. 2/15/2023 |
So, yay! I am all caught up with my weblog buddies! My readers can subscribe by electronic mail once more! Cheers to that!
