{"id":1790677,"date":"2021-04-23T09:44:36","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T13:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1790677"},"modified":"2021-04-23T09:44:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T13:44:36","slug":"feedburner-to-end-email-subscriptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/04\/feedburner-to-end-email-subscriptions\/","title":{"rendered":"FeedBurner to End Email Subscriptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 500 of you subscribe to <strong>The Map Room<\/strong>\u00a0via its email digest. That feature is powered by FeedBurner. Last week FeedBurner announced that <a href=\"http:\/\/feedburnerstatus.blogspot.com\/2021\/02\/building-modern-rss-feed-infrastructure.html\">it\u2019s being moved to new infrastructure<\/a>. Several features will as a result be discontinued\u2014including email subscriptions. I\u2019ve been investigating possible alternatives. The one that looms largest is Mailchimp; its free plan maxes out at 2,000 subscribers, which is four times what we need right now, so there\u2019d be room to grow\u2014but that limit is a hard limit (Mailchimp\u2019s paid plans are way too expensive given this little website\u2019s income). In any event I\u2019ve got some time\u2014until July, I think\u2014to come up with a solution. Will keep you posted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 500 of you subscribe to The Map Room\u00a0via its email digest. That feature is powered by FeedBurner. Last week FeedBurner announced that it\u2019s being moved to new infrastructure. Several features will as a result&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/04\/feedburner-to-end-email-subscriptions\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1116],"class_list":["post-1790677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-status","hentry","category-housekeeping","tag-email-digest","post_format-post-format-status"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1795766,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/11\/subscribe-to-the-new-email-digest\/","url_meta":{"origin":1790677,"position":0},"title":"Subscribe to the New Email Digest","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"4 November 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Last April I told you that with Feedburner\u2019s announcement that it would be ending email subscriptions, I would have to come up with an alternative solution for the 500 or so of you who subscribe to The Map Room via its email digest. 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