One of the most salient features of our Tech Hiring culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted.
Adding insult to the injury, instead of apologizing for wasting your time, putting the pressure of urgency on you, jeopardizing your paid subscriptions, not to mention legal risks, basically "you are on your own", they want to be congratulated for their courage to take a "hard decision".
Elon Musk basically treats content creators like he treats his employees : super badly.
Lesson learned: never trust Twitter as a content creator.
I got this mail too. Luckily, I don't have any subscriber on revue. I used revue only to enable subscribing to my blog through Twitter (thanks to Zapier it was very easy).
I run my own Ghost blog that has inbuilt subscriptions with a Stripe connection. So I am safe and will never have to think about this problem.
For sending my Newsletter I use Mailgun because it can be easily added to Ghost. Also, Mailgun has a Flex plan where I am allowed to send 1000 mails for free every month.
That is enough to send 3 posts per month to my subscribers. And if I reach the limit it only costs 1$ per 1000 mails.
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Awful decision.
Adding insult to the injury, instead of apologizing for wasting your time, putting the pressure of urgency on you, jeopardizing your paid subscriptions, not to mention legal risks, basically "you are on your own", they want to be congratulated for their courage to take a "hard decision".
Elon Musk basically treats content creators like he treats his employees : super badly.
Lesson learned: never trust Twitter as a content creator.
Musk doesn't care about anyone other than Musk, even when he wants us to believe otherwise.
I got this mail too. Luckily, I don't have any subscriber on revue. I used revue only to enable subscribing to my blog through Twitter (thanks to Zapier it was very easy).
I run my own Ghost blog that has inbuilt subscriptions with a Stripe connection. So I am safe and will never have to think about this problem.
For sending my Newsletter I use Mailgun because it can be easily added to Ghost. Also, Mailgun has a Flex plan where I am allowed to send 1000 mails for free every month.
That is enough to send 3 posts per month to my subscribers. And if I reach the limit it only costs 1$ per 1000 mails.
Damn I didn't get that email. That's soon. Lucky I'm on dev.to!
I was also evaluating other platforms. Why haven't you considered Substack in the list of alternatives?
I updated the list and added Substack.
I was also wondering about that. Substack seems like a more proper alternative to Revue than Mailchimp.
It's on the list now I have not used it so I did not know much about it.
Dang! Sorry your preferred newsletter service is shutting down. I'm curious, have you looked into Substack or Ghost?
I haven't tried either of them but I have heard of them. It's nice to know that we have options.
For an alternative you have also buttondown.email !
Cool, this one is new to me.
I am not able to login to my Twitter account now because I am not receiving the 2FA code to my phone. I don't know what Twitter is up to.