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alan-turing-institute / AutSPACEs

Code respository for AutSPACEs: the Autistica/Turing citizen science platform

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Find new mail provider #637

Closed GeorgiaHCA closed 3 months ago

GeorgiaHCA commented 12 months ago

Summary

As of Feb. 29, 2024, TinyLetter will be discontinued. Make sure to export all your data before then.

Deadline

Feb. 29, 2024

What needs to be done?

[x] Export data
[ ] Find new mailing provider and set up on that

gedankenstuecke commented 12 months ago

Oh, thanks for flagging this @GeorgiaHCA! Maybe worth having an ask with TTW community for alternatives? :)

gedankenstuecke commented 10 months ago

There are a few potential alternatives we could use.

free for our use case/size:

Wordpress: https://wordpress.com/support/launch-a-newsletter/
MailerLite https://www.mailerlite.com/pricing

paid:

Ghost: https://ghost.org/vs/substack/
buttondown https://buttondown.email/

I get the impression that MailerLite is mostly focused on oldschool newsletters, while the others also have public archives etc. Wordpress has the benefit of being open source.

gedankenstuecke commented 9 months ago

@Davsarper & @GeorgiaHCA tested Wordpress this morning and it works easy enough and allows multiple admins/editors access to the system, so we'll go with that one for now!

Next steps:

adding historical newsletters over to Wordpress, can get markdown formatted ones from GH
export Tinyletter subscribers
import them to WP
send one last newsletter from Tinyletter announcing the move and that we'll move people over unless they object

gedankenstuecke commented 9 months ago

I moved all the newsletters from TinyLetter to Wordpress! Now it's just a matter of exporting the subscribers!

gedankenstuecke commented 9 months ago

Okay, i've tried importing our existing subscribers to Wordpress in two batches, the first one is already showing up as imported! Once the final batch is imported we can close this one! 🤞

gedankenstuecke commented 7 months ago

@Davsarper is on the case for buttondown :)

gedankenstuecke commented 3 months ago

This is stale as "dead in Turing committee" and with the project moving on from Turing somewhere else, it probably fair to just close