Taswegian1957

A Quick Question for Email Followers


Reader Helen who subscribes to the blog via email today commented that her notification email looked very different than the one she usually receives.

I have no idea why this might be. I read posts from the Reader myself so I have no idea how the emails normally look.

Has anyone else noticed a change? I know I have about 70 email subscribers. I’m thinking it may be the so-called WordPress “Happiness Engineers” fiddling with things again as there have been a lot of changes recently.

Most of us have probably experienced WordPress deleting followers from their blogs for no apparent reason. It has happened to many bloggers I know.

They have also been tinkering with the Plans. I’m sure many of you are aware of the new pricing plans. I found out in time to renew my subscription before the changes came in but I know have a notice on my blog saying I’m on a legacy plan. I’ll certainly have to change to a new plan next year. Either a free one which will oblige me to take down a lot of photos or one that costs three times as much as now. I’ll probably cough up the extra cash because I don’t want to ruin my archive of photos.

None of this may have anything to do with Helen’s issue. WordPress is weird. Just sayin’.

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Published by Taswegian1957

I was born in England in 1957 and lived there until our family came to Australia in 1966. I grew up in Adelaide, South Australia, where I met and married my husband, David. We came together over a mutual love of trains. Both of us worked for the railways for many years, his job was with Australian National Railways, while I spent 12 years working for the STA, later TransAdelaide the Adelaide city transit system. After leaving that job I worked in hospitality until 2008. We moved to Tasmania in 2002 to live in the beautiful Huon Valley. In 2015 David became ill and passed away in October of that year. I currently co-write two blogs on WordPress.com with my sister Naomi. Our doll blog "Dolls, Dolls, Dolls", and "Our Other Blog" which is about everything else but with a focus on photographs and places in Tasmania. In November 2019 I began a new life in the house that Naomi and I intend to make our retirement home at Sisters Beach in Tasmania's northwest. Currently we have five pets between us. Naomi's two dogs Toby and Teddy and cats, Tigerwoods and Panther and my cat Polly. My dog Cindy passed away aged 16 in April 2022.

9 comments

  1. Yes, I noticed this week that the notification e-mail is different. However, it still has a “Comment” box that I can click on. That brings me to your blog. So, different but not a problem for me.
    As for the cost, if your fees go up next year you could ask readers to voluntarily contirbute whatever they can afford via personal transactions via PayPal. After all, your archive of posts and photos is a resource for those of us who read your blog.

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    • I’m glad to know you are still getting emails so perhaps the change is just WordPress being WordPress.
      Luckily I found out about the price hike just before I was due to renew so it gives me another year to see if they bring out a cheaper plan.
      I never wanted to charge people to read this blog but if it gets too difficult financially I may do as you suggest because I do think the photo archive is valuable to others.

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