Find new mail provider

[GeorgiaHCA]

Summary

As of Feb. 29, 2024, TinyLetter will be discontinued. Make sure to export all your data before then.

Deadline

Feb. 29, 2024

What needs to be done?

• Export data
• Find new mailing provider and set up on that

[gedankenstuecke]

Oh, thanks for flagging this @GeorgiaHCA! Maybe worth having an ask with TTW community for alternatives? :)

[gedankenstuecke]

There are a few potential alternatives we could use.

free for our use case/size:

• Wordpress: https://wordpress.com/support/launch-a-newsletter/
• MailerLite https://www.mailerlite.com/pricing

paid:

• Ghost: https://ghost.org/vs/substack/
• buttondown https://buttondown.email/

I get the impression that MailerLite is mostly focused on oldschool newsletters, while the others also have public archives etc. Wordpress has the benefit of being open source.

[gedankenstuecke]

@Davsarper & @GeorgiaHCA tested Wordpress this morning and it works easy enough and allows multiple admins/editors access to the system, so we'll go with that one for now!

Next steps:

• adding historical newsletters over to Wordpress, can get markdown formatted ones from GH
• export Tinyletter subscribers
• import them to WP
• send one last newsletter from Tinyletter announcing the move and that we'll move people over unless they object

[gedankenstuecke]

I moved all the newsletters from TinyLetter to Wordpress! Now it's just a matter of exporting the subscribers!

[gedankenstuecke]

Okay, i've tried importing our existing subscribers to Wordpress in two batches, the first one is already showing up as imported! Once the final batch is imported we can close this one! 🤞

[gedankenstuecke]

@Davsarper is on the case for buttondown :)