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Re: We have a 99% email reputation, but Gmail disagrees

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Post by hsbauauvhabzb » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 5:22 AM UTC

htnthrow11220 wrote: post #247

hsbauauvhabzb wrote: post #195

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It was a question with an assumed answer which I think is pretty likely. It wasn’t presented as fact. I think at this point it’s pretty reasonable to assume the worst of email marketers, and I don’t care if you think otherwise :)

Sure. I took it as I think you intended - a statement of your understanding. I guess I just was irritated in, the moment as people are constantly reacting to unverified assumptions when there are many real things to react to. Apologies if I added to the pile of annoying things on the internet for you!

You’ve made an unverified assumption and are reacting to it.

Re: We have a 99% email reputation, but Gmail disagrees

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Post by spl757 » Thu, Apr 16, 2026, 9:27 AM UTC

You have a 99% email reputation with a company THAT IS NOT GOOGLE and that reputation scrore means fuck-all to Google. If you want to know what score GOOGLE is giving you, which is they metric that GOOOGLE uses, you can find that by signing up for Google Postmaster Tools. A 99% reputation with someone that has nothing to do with accepting ther email for final delivery is worthless marketing bullshit that you have fallen for.

Re: We have a 99% email reputation, but Gmail disagrees

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Post by zachleat » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 8:06 PM UTC

ValentineC wrote: post #152

basilikum wrote: post #30

Why is this blog on a sudomain of wpcomstaging.com? Is this actually an official site by fontawsome? If yes, what a pack of clowns. I hope their spam emails rot in every spam filter forever.

> Why is this blog on a sudomain of wpcomstaging.com? I find it ironic that they "acquired" Eleventy and are developing Build Awesome Pro [1], but can't bring themselves to dogfood it. They do have an alpha version of Build Awesome Pro, right? [1] https://blog.fontawesome.com/pausing-kickstarter/

Howdy y’all! Eleventy maintainer and member of Font Awesome here. Just saw this (I don’t regularly read HN).

Looks like someone shared the staging URL for the old FA WordPress blog on HN? I’ve updated the WordPress staging site to redirect to the new Build Awesome/Eleventy version at blog.fontawesome.com so that it doesn’t happen again. Sorry about that! You can read about the 2025 dogfood migration here: https://blog.fontawesome.com/blog-awesome-to-11ty/

Re: We have a 99% email reputation, but Gmail disagrees

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Post by em-bee » Thu, Apr 23, 2026, 1:35 AM UTC

zachleat wrote: post #323

ValentineC wrote: post #152

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> Why is this blog on a sudomain of wpcomstaging.com? I find it ironic that they "acquired" Eleventy and are developing Build Awesome Pro [1], but can't bring themselves to dogfood it. They do have an alpha version of Build Awesome Pro, right? [1] https://blog.fontawesome.com/pausing-kickstarter/

Howdy y’all! Eleventy maintainer and member of Font Awesome here. Just saw this (I don’t regularly read HN). Looks like someone shared the staging URL for the old FA WordPress blog on HN? I’ve updated the WordPress staging site to redirect to the new Build Awesome/Eleventy version at blog.fontawesome.com so that it doesn’t happen again. Sorry about that! You can read about the 2025 dogfood migration here: https://blo…

the staging url wasn't shared, but the published page references the staging url as the canonical url so HN automatically updated the submitted url to that. that reference is what you need to fix.

Re: We have a 99% email reputation, but Gmail disagrees

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Post by zachleat » Thu, Apr 23, 2026, 5:09 PM UTC

em-bee wrote: post #324

zachleat wrote: post #323

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Howdy y’all! Eleventy maintainer and member of Font Awesome here. Just saw this (I don’t regularly read HN). Looks like someone shared the staging URL for the old FA WordPress blog on HN? I’ve updated the WordPress staging site to redirect to the new Build Awesome/Eleventy version at blog.fontawesome.com so that it doesn’t happen again. Sorry about that! You can read about the 2025 dogfood migration here: https://blo…

the staging url wasn't shared, but the published page references the staging url as the canonical url so HN automatically updated the submitted url to that. that reference is what you need to fix.

Well, shit. You’re absolutely right! That was 100% my fault and it’s fixed now.