Iβd love to still be able to recommend TinyLetter, but Mailchimp bought it and abandoned it. I think it still works, but I couldnβt at all vouch for its reliability.
As an alternative, I highly recommend Postcard (https://postcard.page/). About as simple as it gets. The developer is very friendly and helpful too.
I've written about this in the past but can't find it for some reason, so here it is again.
My original blog from 2003 was called 'randomelements' but that wasn't the first time I used the name. I began using it for my ambient music project back in 2000 which was originally 'Random Elements' as two separate words.
A company I used to work for in the 90's had a training division which operated as a standalone business entity. Because they covered all sorts of topics their name was, you guessed it, Random Elements.
I thought that sounded cool and, because my I envisaged the project having different styles and influences, 'borrowed' the name. I stumbled across an interview I gave in 2001 in which I sounded very pretentious. π (Internet Archive link.)
That only lasted a couple of years so I choose to re-use the name for the blog as it wasn't focused on a single topic.
When moving to a WordPress site in 2008 I changed the name and eventually let the domain expire.
When I started making music again I decided it was time to dust it off and go by that moniker for anything I produce. And that's where we are now.
@colinwalker buttondown is great, recur.email is super nice and simple, imho.
Thanks Chad π
If you are looking for something cheap and self-hosted, I can recommend MailSolved: https://usolved.net/app/mailsolved?language=en
Interesting but my host is very aggressive about blocking multiple outbound emails to stop spammers so not sure self hosting is an option π
Iβd love to still be able to recommend TinyLetter, but Mailchimp bought it and abandoned it. I think it still works, but I couldnβt at all vouch for its reliability.
As an alternative, I highly recommend Postcard (https://postcard.page/). About as simple as it gets. The developer is very friendly and helpful too.
Ugh. Just saw this:
https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/29/23981363/mailchimp-shutting-down-tinyletter
Well that's a definitive answer about TinyLetter.
I feel sad about that. It would have been a great service if someone who cared had bought it and kept developing it. Instead, Mailchimp bought it.
Yeah it's sad. I briefly used TinyLetter several years ago and was disappointed when MailChimp bought it.
@colinwalker youβre welcome!