Inside continues to bet on email, the “largest social network”
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Re: Inside continues to bet on email, the “largest social network”
#2Email is like the one and only vendor/device/programming language independent way of communication.
Re: Inside continues to bet on email, the “largest social network”
#3> For others, it might mean one original article blurred out in a newsletter. (Inside’s newsletter CMS is built to handle toggling between paid-for and free content.)
Anyone know of an open source or paid Newsletter Management CMS? I'm working on a content site like inside, for a very small sports niche, and am thinking of making it a daily newsletter with paid subscriptions, instead of a regular website driven by WordPress or some other CMS, with ads, which would be super annoying and not monetize well these days.
Re: Inside continues to bet on email, the “largest social network”
#4This is tangential, but needs to be stated:
What I've learned from email newletters is that Microsoft Outlook needs to die a swift and horrible death.
There is absolutely no good reason why we should have to create email newsletters that require tables for layout.
Re: Inside continues to bet on email, the “largest social network”
#5This is tangential, but needs to be stated: What I've learned from email newletters is that Microsoft Outlook needs to die a swift and horrible death. There is absolutely no good reason why we should have to create email newsletters that require tables for layout.
yahoo, gmail and others need to fall in inline - they all seem to require tables.
Re: Inside continues to bet on email, the “largest social network”
#6This is tangential, but needs to be stated: What I've learned from email newletters is that Microsoft Outlook needs to die a swift and horrible death. There is absolutely no good reason why we should have to create email newsletters that require tables for layout.
That and HTML email that doesn't have a text/plain alternative. Even the braindead conversion contain some nuggets of information.
Re: Inside continues to bet on email, the “largest social network”
#7> For others, it might mean one original article blurred out in a newsletter. (Inside’s newsletter CMS is built to handle toggling between paid-for and free content.) Anyone know of an open source or paid Newsletter Management CMS? I'm working on a content site like inside, for a very small sports niche, and am thinking of making it a daily newsletter with paid subscriptions, instead of a regular website driven by Wo…
Have heard good things about Sendy https://sendy.co
Self-hosted AFAIR
Re: Inside continues to bet on email, the “largest social network”
#8This is tangential, but needs to be stated: What I've learned from email newletters is that Microsoft Outlook needs to die a swift and horrible death. There is absolutely no good reason why we should have to create email newsletters that require tables for layout.
I'm surprised we haven't seen the mIRC's of email yet (or maybe there have but that just didn't work?). mIRC was a popular client for IRC on Windows. It extended IRC with features such as color and formatting in your messages, which was beyond the protocol. A feature like that worked just fine because the color codes were mostly invisible to those who weren't using a client that supported them. In this way, mIRC and other clients could move the protocol forward via graceful degradation without having to wait for a new IRC specification update.
I can imagine the same thing being done to email, where modern features could be built on top of email, which just gracefully degrade if those features aren't available in the client (e.g. something similar to inline source maps, which can decorate parts of the email for clients that support it, but are otherwise out of view for clients that don't). If the feature is useful enough, other clients will adopt them, pushing the protocol forward.
Re: Inside continues to bet on email, the “largest social network”
#9This is tangential, but needs to be stated: What I've learned from email newletters is that Microsoft Outlook needs to die a swift and horrible death. There is absolutely no good reason why we should have to create email newsletters that require tables for layout.
yahoo, gmail and others need to fall in inline - they all seem to require tables.
At this point I'd settle for them all just supporting the exact same elements and properties in the exact same ways.
The type of element is less important than there being consistency and documentation.
Re: Inside continues to bet on email, the “largest social network”
#10This is tangential, but needs to be stated: What I've learned from email newletters is that Microsoft Outlook needs to die a swift and horrible death. There is absolutely no good reason why we should have to create email newsletters that require tables for layout.
Worked on my first HTML email template, was a real blast to the past... Tables for layout and inline CSS on every leaf node is recommended...