There is still RSS feed. I pay way more attention to the feeds I subscribed (1 minute) than email I received (1 second)

Email newsletter is better at delivering ads, RSS is better at delivering contents..

Yes, push notifications again do cost money if you get a certain amount, they can only contain a small amount of data, and whether or not the full message can be displayed within the notification without opening the app is questionable and might even depend on the device.

Piggybacking Discord or others as notification providers require recipients to have an account on that platform and the software to be installed and their notifications to be set up properly to actually receive them.

Emails on the other hand side are a universally accepted message format, and you can assume everyone on the internet has one. And the messages can be transfered across “providers”. Unlike Discord chat messages, which require Discord…

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The biggest blocker is that push notifications are capped at around 4KB total payload - that’s barely enough for a few paragraphs of text, let alone a proper newsletter with all the development updates, code examples, insights, and formatting I want to include each month.

But honestly, even if that limit didn’t exist, I think email would still be the better choice here. The tooling ecosystem around email marketing is just so mature - I get visual editors, templates, analytics, all that good stuff right out of the box with most providers. With push notifications, I’d either be building all that infrastructure myself or paying for yet another service anyway.

On the deliverability front, I’m actually pretty confident with the setup. I’ve got all the proper authentication mechanisms in place (DKIM, SPF, domain alignment, etc.) plus double opt-in, and my provider has been doing this since 2010 with solid track record.

Plus, there’s the permission friction - even if I only ask when users want to subscribe, it’s still a browser popup that gives blanket permission for any notifications from the site, not just newsletters. Emails are way less intrusive, people can read them whenever they want, and they know exactly what they’re signing up for.

The pricing is totally reasonable for what I’m expecting subscriber-wise, and if it grows beyond that… well, that’s a good problem to have!

Oh, I didn’t know we cost so much i.e. I for example have enabled desktop notifications for all 3 forums. Sorry

But honestly … I didn’t heard about costs when last time I was dealing with them, but things change and my information does not have to be up-to-date.

Or just post on forum and let people know there is a forum setting for enabling a desktop notifications.

@bartblast Hmm … I’ve got all your points, but the forum allows you to do all of that absolutely for free and literally without any work from your side. People can enable push notifications or emails in their own preferences page, for example here is one option that 100% match your case:

Email me when I am quoted, replied to, my @username is mentioned, or when there is new activity in my watched categories, tags or topics

All people have to do is to just watch the specific topic.

Of course you may post directly on the forum or just post the quoted summary and simply add a link to your page. Please keep in mind that the community here is rapidly evolving (see changes to library updates). Also I would think about one more things i.e. views. There is much bigger chance that you will have more clicks by cross-posting or posting summary on the forum, so in my opinion posting (this or other way) here is best in long term.

Unfortunately I prefer to not share my email too much. One time I’ve got lesson when my email was exposed and I will rather follow my rules:

Of course it’s your decision. If it’s not best for you it’s fine. Hope you would have a lot of subscribers as you anyway do an amazing work.