Bad News for ESSA Race Results Reporting

To: ESSA blog site subscribers

From: George B., Choptank Scorekeeper and blog site administrator

One of the reasons that I have been using a Google hosted blog site is the automatic emails sent to subscribers like you. It has been a great resource for us. I post a race results or a notice and it does the email work for me. Currently, 77 people subscribe to the site.  Subscribers can also turn on or off their subscriptions.  Best of all it is free.

OK, so what is the BAD NEWS? Google is dropping the email utility called FeedBurner. It is (was) the email subscription manager for Google blogsites.  RSS, if you know what that is, is still available.    

Needless to say; but, I will say it anyway, "THIS SUCKS!"

Sorry folks, no more emails for now unless I find another easy way to do it. 

What you will need to do is set the ESSA blogsite as one of your "favorites".  I usually post the results by 10:00 PM. so you can click on the link before you turn out the lights or the next morning over coffee (or Captain Crunch).

http://essasailing.blogspot.

com

Google's message follows:

Upcoming changes to FeedBurner in July 2021

Starting in July, we are transitioning FeedBurner onto a more stable, modern infrastructure. This will keep the product up and running for all users, but it also means that we will be turning down most non-core feed management features, including email subscriptions, at that time.

What FeedBurner users can expect

For many users, no action is required. All existing feeds will continue to serve uninterrupted, and you can continue to create new accounts and burn new feeds. Core feed management functionality will continue to be supported, such as the ability to change the URL, source feed, title, and podcast metadata of your feed. Basic analytics on feed requests and the ability to create enclosure tags for MP3 files will also continue to be supported.

So what is changing? We are turning down most non-core feed management features that help you optimize and publicize your feed, e.g. email subscriptions, Browser Friendly, and Password Protector. 

The river and wind will still be there,

Fair winds, George B. 

essasailing38@gmail.com