As the Pink Floyd song goes, “Is anybody OUT THERE?” :))
Recently there have been glitches in the WordPress Notification system; just-published posts land in the WordPress ‘Reader’ but they oftentimes don’t reach the email subscribers. It seems to be a hit or miss option…
The Reader works well for at-a-glance updates, but that option often fails to load when the internet is slow. I rarely use the reader, especially now that posts are condensed to postage-stamp glimpses. I subscribe by email to bloggers, and I am especially respectful to those who take the time to read- as well as comment – on my posts. They represent real people in my network of friends. It’s nice to receive their posts via email, and then lob to their sites.
Every so often I’ll check when one goes silent, and sometimes there are new posts that never reached the inbox. An expanded search finds them in the reader. When I share that info with them, the replies are similar, “I thought that maybe no one liked the post,” or “That might explain why no one seems to read or comment on my posts any more.”
I subscribe to my own posts by email, and the most recent one, published about 15 hours ago, never reached the inbox. Thanks, Gwen, for your comment, which confirmed that it reached at least one regular email subscriber! Thanks, as well, for being such a loyal reader and cheerleader!
The ‘pingbacks’ are not reaching the inbox either, though the drop-down comment notification works well for those messages.
If you have a wordpress account, and your feedback seems low, it might be that people like me are not receiving the notifications! I use Yahoo mail, btw, and this is the feedback from WordPress: “…In your case, Yahoo is intermittently rejecting mail sent to your address. Please contact them to work that out, since it’s likely affecting other mail as well. “
I’ve written Yahoo. Place your bets; do you think that Yahoo will say the problem is with WordPress?
Stay tuned!
Z
First, so you know, this post and the two others you recently published (today? yesterday?) all arrived in my inbox pronto, and are in the Reader.
One thing you might do is take a really good look at your yahoo account to be sure everything on that end is correct. There have been many, many changes there recently, and it’s affected me, too — although in other ways, not directly associated with WordPress.
I spent a good two hours with the Happiness Engineers recently, trying to figure out exactly how my current Lagniappe post got published. I didn’t do it, because I wasn’t finished and ready to post. When I got an email in MY inbox saying it had been published, I nearly had a heart attack. I’m not sure which is worse: a post with no emails attached, or emails with no post attached!
Si, one of my posts fired out like that too… and one that was scheduled to be posted a few days later went out with zero warning…
I’ve cross checked Yahoo many times when I see posts in the reader that did not reach the inbox.. I do a check for posts by that blogsite, then a check for the title.. check and double check spam, etc..
Thanks for the ‘received email’ report, and thanks for your amazing support for all of these years.
Oh Lisa I just love you so much…I enjoy your posts and be sure that I read EVERY single one and often reply…if you don’t react to it…its ok….I KNOW YOU and know how busy you are and also just am so glad to be part of your readership
siempre
gwen
Hi Gwen! I try to always reply to your comments; today’s has been one of slower-than norm internet, and a keyboard mistake fired your comment to the trash, with a notification, ‘would you like to undo this?’ and just as fast the notification vanished.. and it took hours to find the page dedicated to the comment s… whew, but i found it…. thanks again so very much!
I read every one of your posts, and am always thrilled to see them in my (Yahoo) inbox. I’m sorry to have been so lax about making comments lately. That’s true with every blog I subscribe to. I seem to just lack the energy many days. I tell myself I’ll catch up “on the weekend” but then things put off until then have piled up by then…and I’m overwhelmed. I’m looking forward to a good change in the near future that will open up my life a bit. Thanks for hanging in there!
Speaking of.. I’ve not hopped over to see if I’ve missed any new posts of yours. You are so disciplined, and it’s been a while since seeing one of your posts….
just checked your site and then did an email search; four of your ‘may’ posts did not reach the inbox..
After I stopped receiving notification of new posts in my e-mail box, I began using the Reader for reading posts of bloggers I follow.
Hmmm. many people are saying this, so maybe it’s a sneaky way to get us to use the reader?!!!! The reader is difficult to use when the internet is slow.. just little white on white rectangles where the images and text should be.. not WP fault but slow internet…
Thanks for sharing what works best for you!
So sorry you are still having this problem Lisa.. and I will not hold my breath as to what Yahoo say back. Lol..
This issue though has happened a lot with me.. some will appear in email and some not at all.. Its only recently the past year I have been using the reader more often.. as the back log of emails while I have been away have been huge..
So Like you I like to revisit my loyal readers first.. And catch up with their post.. Which is often why I take ages, as I like to comment, and ‘Read’
Its a nuisance..
In the past I have even unsubscribe peoples blogs to re-follow to see it this cures the problem of receiving them.. Some I have resorted to putting in my browser so I can visit them regular as they fail to appear.. So I do not think it is all down to your own email provider as my email provider is a different one..
Love and Hugs my friend and hope you soon find it sorted.. xxx
❤
Si, we have options, and the reader helps keep up with the posts.. Every so often I unsubscribe and resubscribe as well, and every so often I see where I’m no longer ‘following’ – most likely by a sensitive keyboard mistake….
A new post of yours reached the inbox – yay! Heading there soon!
Its a reblog Lisa, I hope you head over to Tina’s site to read fully.. Sending LOVE and pleased you are getting my updates at least LOL.
Hugs and much love as I call it night.. xxx
I use the reader daily to search for new posts published. This is how your new (this) post was discovered today. It has become the handiest way for me to view hundreds of new posts published daily.
Once per week (on Monday) a summary of new posts are delivered to my email.
This system has not failed and works well considering the numbers of people
I follow on a regular bases. I have been using Hotmail for over 12 years.
I used to have a Yahoo account. Too many problems. Not enough solutions.
Wishing you best of fortune Lisa, hugs, Eddie
Thanks for the feedback and for sharing what works for you. Yes, those weekly summaries are nice, especially for those who post several or more times in a day!
Hope your day is going well!
Hi Lisa, all good here, I get your posts in the Reader, just been annoyingly busy lately, barely having time to comment ☹, but I’m right behind you 🤓💐
Si, the reader helps a lot when behind, though sometimes it stops loading so it’s easy to miss posts through that option as well. May this week go well for you!
I definitely get your posts Lisa, but don’t seem to get a lot of activity on my own – but always get your comments. It’s something to keep an eye on. I’m with Gmail. Have to say I never read the Reader, I just don’t get time!
Si, the reader doesn’t suit my online time, and usually it doesn’t load properly on slow internet.. it is nice, at times, to scroll back and check – but there are usually many other tasks at hand – like painting or being outside or seeing friends – that trump the reader!
the reader, however, is helping me ‘catch’ the posts that don’t reach the inbox…
I’m another person who doesn’t like the Reader for the way posts are presented, Lisa. I get your posts, and many others, in my inbox (gmail – I have a yahoo account to but I never use it anymore). For the most part, I get the blogs I’m most interested in sent to my inbox – some as published, some weekly.
I’m sorry it’s so frustrating for you. Internet problems of any kind are aggravating. I’m having trouble with my phone lately, and it’s gotten so bad that I’ll be taking it to the store today to see if I need a new battery, or – hope not! – a new phone. I depend on that phone when away from the house so much!
As for receiving your posts, I think I get them in a timely manner for the most part. I’m not aware of any posts I never received, but how would I be? 😉
” I’m not aware of any posts I never received, but how would I be? ”
Exactly! Every so often I realize that someone’s ‘blog’ has been quiet for a while, and I go check .. if there have been no new posts, I usually leave a note ‘just checking…’ More times, however, I see many posts that never reached the inbox, so I unsubscribe and resubscribe and hope that fixes the glitch…
Hope your weekend goes well!
So sorry you’re having this problem, Lisa. Hope you somehow get this worked out.
I hadn’t even thought to subscribe to my own blog. I will so I can help monitor it.
Thanks, Emily. I like to see how it looks in email format,then follow the link to be sure it looks the same as the draft mode.. Once it helped reclaim several that had been trashed and dumped – not by me but by some creepy cyber vandal… I sent WP the email with the link, and the link opened to ‘Page Not Found!’.. They rolled it back and restored the posts.. The comments were lost in that ‘surgery.’
love love love…keep posting I love reading…
Thank you, Gwen!
Fab post & topic!
So glad someone else is noticing these discrepancies!
We also noticed this phenomenon, & as time went by
it was almost 2 years since we had a new email follower,
but we were getting around 10 new follows a week via
the WP reader. Eventually we decided to just remove
the “Subscribe by email” function, as it was taking up
space & never used. We tend to bookmark all of the
blogs we check out, so it is easier to return again later.
Also Yahoo was just bought out by Verizon, which is why
we de-activated our Yahoo accounts. Most corporations
are now in a mergers & acquisitions holding pattern with
little to no REAL technological innovations, which is bizarre,
since we are living in 2017, & technology is proliferating
faster than ever, it is a very bizarre time indeed.
Thanks for this feedback; many email notifications are not reaching the yahoo inbox, so perhaps it is indeed a ‘yahoo glitch.’.. ii’ve enjoyed looking at your site – you’ve earned ‘the most original’ award for sure! i only wish there were an ‘about’ page so that i’d meet the face/faces behind these creative posts that also illustrate that you are deep thinkers and act on instincts and not what’s spoon fed to the masses. hoo-rah for you!
I stuck the email question into search and found you. I had noticed likes were dropping off, but had no idea my emails weren’t getting through till a fellow blogger mentioned it.
In theory it seems easy enough to fix the receiver half of this – by going into reader and using the Manage button. If you search out the site you no longer get emails from, you can then manually reset by sliding the switch back over. I’ve done that today, we’ll see how it pans out.
But how I fix it so people once again get email notifications from me is as yet unsolved.
Exactly! I found a semi-similar problem on the
WP forums, wrote and asked, and was politely scolded and told not to hijack the thread…. Sometimes I don’t think they truly want to help.. they said the problem was with Yahoo… but yes, I agree with you – it’s those random email subscribers or WP email subscribers that never know we’ve posted something new… After about two weeks of not receiving many posts, I changed to another email provider, and all of the posts are now reaching me.. but our subscribers shouldn’t have to open new addresses just to receive the awol posts!
In fact, this comment of yours is in the drop-down menu but notification did not reach the new inbox.. hmmmm. many pingbacks were not reaching the inbox either…
Oh man, good luck. Aside from that, good to find your site and kudos on smashing out a great blog post, thank you 🎈