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Grazhir (grazhir) wrote,
@ 2008-01-16 22:46:00

Current music:	Final Fantasy XII - The Forgotten Capital
Entry tags:	news

Feature Creep
Okay, y'all. With the help of my SO I've added a feature to Grazhir, that being mailing lists. At present there are only two (I didn't see the need for more), one for Harry Potter stuff, the other for Final Fantasy.

The default site header (this does not apply to the actual lists area and the custom 404) contains a "Subscribe" link. The system is double-opt in, which means you subscribe, get a request for confirmation, and then you're set, which means nobody can sign you up as a joke, without your knowledge. Unsubscribing is extremely simple, and can be done via a link on that same page.

As far as I can tell from my testing it seems to be working smoothly. And frankly, I much prefer this solution over my present clunky system of manually maintaining email lists in Thunderbird. Those on one of the manual lists have already been sent an email regarding this change.

	jillypooh 2008-01-17 05:18 am UTC (link)
	Oooh shiny! I'm such a joiner. I watch your journal and I even pop by Grazhir every now and then to reread one of my favorite stories. So you'd think I'd know if there were an update. But just in case... g (Reply to this) (Thread)

	grazhir 2008-01-17 05:23 am UTC (link)
	While I think it's cool (at LJ, at least) that you can track entries, you can't track by tag, so there's no getting an email automatically if a person posts something and uses, say, the "Alert" tag. (Reply to this) (Parent)