W. Caleb McDaniel
@kfitz +1
Links
A thing that I have only just realized that I loathe about newsletters: when links in the newsletters have self-referential preview URLs. So when I hover over all the many clever links in “Your Newsletter,” they show up as taking me to yournewsletter.com followed by a hash that only on the server resolves into the actual URL, leaving me with no sense whatsoever about what I’m going to get myself into if I click. In the year of the internet 2024, this is some bad privacy and security practice, man.
For the love of all that’s holy, get a blog. I have an RSS reader and I’m not afraid to use it.
Webmentions
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@kfitz I'm not going to lie, this made me double check that my self sending out my blog posts as a pseudo-newsletter via {gmailr} that all of the links are full links. And they are! Because I'm literally taking the RSS full text output, and sending it via email. https://rmflight.github.io/posts/2023-01-19-blog-posts-as-email-newsletters/ Deciphering Life: One Bit at a Time - Blog Posts as Email Newsletters
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@kfitz hear hear!
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@kfitz and then when you are trying to find something you know you saw in that newsletter 6 months ago and find that the link tracking service expired those links. ????
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@kfitz concur
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Moving all my newsletter subscriptions (or the ones I want to keep, ahem) to my #RSS reader. Still hate the link structure, but getting stuff out of my inbox is at least better for my stress levels. rss
Jason Heppler
Jacob Wolman
Kathleen Fitzpatrick
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