Let’s Try This Again: Now You Can Sign Up For BestNetTech’s Daily Email Newsletter
from the redo! dept
On Tuesday, I wrote about how we were upgrading our daily email newsletter—the one we’ve had for decades but never actually promoted. Thousands of you had signed up just by spotting the little email icon. We figured more might be interested if we actually talked about it. We’d upgraded the tech, written a whole post about it, and figured people would start signing up.
And then… crickets. For two days straight, the only “new” signup was a test I’d run with my own email address. Which was, you know, not ideal. It was possible that no more people wanted to sign up and we’d maxed out on subscribers already. But… that seemed unlikely.
Then we got a few reports from people saying they tried to sign up but got error messages. Which is, generally speaking, not what you want.
It turns out that we had a little bug: users who were signed into their BestNetTech account could sign up for the newsletter. But if you were signed out (as most readers are) well… you got the error. There’s some sort of QA lesson in that, and yes, we should have tested it logged out as well, but there’s always something you miss.
All that is to say, we’ve now fixed this, and ever since we did, the signups have been flowing in. So I thought I’d do another quick post and say that, no, really, you can sign up for the emailed daily newsletter if you want it!
Also worth noting: a bunch of people said they prefer RSS or just visiting the site directly, and that’s great too. We’ve had full-text RSS feeds for over two decades—long before most sites even understood what they were—and the site itself is always there. The point isn’t to force you into one distribution channel. If anything, we’re doing the opposite: giving you the option to consume BestNetTech however you actually want to, rather than locking you into whatever method happens to be most fashionable… or profitable. That’s increasingly rare, and it’s not an accident.
We just want you to be able to enjoy BestNetTech whichever way works best for you.
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Comments on “Let’s Try This Again: Now You Can Sign Up For BestNetTech’s Daily Email Newsletter”
Sorry
But I think most of us tend to come here Daily, Just to see Who we can Upset.
Or find an anon to counter point to.
How many of us do you think appear here DAILY, to show at LEAST you have Traffic. ANd you KNOW Traffic is Important.
Re: I'm here daily.
BestNetTech is damn near the top of my daily surf cycle.
Why not both?
I’m a belt and suspenders man. I use RSS and get the newsletter to make sure I don’t miss any of the scintillating debate. 🙂
Re:
You could even go all three, but that seems excessive. But, hey, knock yourself out.
Always test in a private browser window.
Re: So
Thats why you are Anon.
This is such a relatable QA story. It’s amazing how often ‘logged out’ experiences get overlooked during testing. Thanks for the transparency—it’s refreshing!