Here is what you can do to resolve the kinks.
By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET.
On Tuesday night, I changed the WOLF STREET email service from MailChimp back to WordPress. I had used Word Press from mid-2014 through May 2018. Then I switched to MailChimp. At the time, all email addresses were copied from WordPress to MailChimp. And people continued to get the emails.
Tuesday night, I switched back to WordPress, and moved all active email addresses from MailChimp to WordPress.
(Why I switched back is a different story, centered around how MailChimp has evolved since Intuit acquired it in November 2024; the final straw occurred on Tuesday. So, adios).
But there are now two kinks that some of you might run into, or have run into. Here we go through how to resolve those kinks, and it’s pretty easy.
Just upfront: any time you did not get the emails, just go to wolfstreet.com, and everything is there. Bookmark wolfstreet.com as a backup.
Kink #1: Did not receive any emails yesterday or today…
If you received the two most recent emails, The Collapse of the EV SPACs and Our Drunken Sailors and their Credit Cards, or this email right here, the system is delivering the emails to you correctly.
But if you didn’t receive those emails…
If you signed up before May 2018, you signed up through WordPress back then, and your account at WordPress continued over the years, though it wasn’t sending out the WOLF STREET emails. The thing is: the “preferences” you might have set in WordPress continued through today, and prevailed when your email was re-activated by my transfer on Tuesday.
So if you signed up before May 2018 and didn’t receive those two emails, please go to your account at WordPress by clicking on this link:
https://wordpress.com/reader/subscriptions
Then log in by inserting your email address into the email box (no password needed), and follow the login procedure. This takes you to your WordPress account. It may show a page for “Preferences” or “Manage subscribed sites,” or similar.
If you see a left column, click on “manage subscriptions.”
Look for “Wolf Street.” Make sure the “email frequency” is set on “Instantly” (to receive the emails as soon as articles are published).
Click on the 3 dots “…” on the right, which opens a box. Make sure the toggle for “receive emails” is blue (=on) and that it says under it “instantly.”
If you signed up after May 2018, and did not receive the last two emails:
- Check your spam folder. If you find them there, report them as “not spam” and move them to your inbox.
- If it’s not in your spam folder… Go through the procedure to check into your account at WordPress, described above, and make sure the settings are as described above.
- If the login to WordPress fails and WordPress says that there is no account for this email, then please sign up again for email service at the sign-up box below this or any article. That should work.
Kink #2: Links to Wolf Street in the old emails don’t work.
Some of you saved some of the old emails with links to WOLF STREET articles that you wanted to keep around. The links in these emails go through MailChimp to WOLF STREET, and since I canceled the MailChimp account, the links no longer work.
But wolfstreet.com works. It’s just the connection through MailChimp that has been cut.
So, to look at an old article in your saved emails (from MailChimp), do this:
- Open the email
- Copy and paste the black title at the top of the email into your browser’s search box
- The WOLF STREET article should come right up in the search results.
- Click on the Wolf Street link in the search results, and you’re there.
My apologies for these kinks, and thank you for working your way through them if you encountered them.
Wolf
Enjoy reading WOLF STREET and want to support it? You can donate. I appreciate it immensely. Click on the mug to find out how:
From personal experience: Intuit are experts at taking usable software or SAAS and turning it into high-priced crap.
As with Adobe, Autocad, Google, et al.
Nearly all useful software with monopolistic or oligopolistic market share in what has become a resource-hogging SAAS hellscape has been “ensh*tified,” as Cory Doctorow has neologized.
Yep. Mint for example was a great service that is no more.
I got this email a few minutes ago so I’m guessing my setup is now fixed. Thanks for the help!
Thanks for letting me know about it, so I could research the issue to figure out what was going on in this joint here.
Intuit is simply evil. Since they dropped the CD/desktop version and forced customers into subscriptions, they now hold small business data hostage in return for continuous payments. I don’t think I’ve ever despised a company more.
👍
Microsoft is just as bad.
And Acrobat
Good on ya, Wolf. Thought the chaff was related to your recent post on this situation. As always, your words are worth any wait…
may we all find a better day.
I also changed my email from Proton back to Apple mail. But….since I’m currently traveling in Mexico…your messages arrive in Spanish. Dang, I can’t get away with anything anymore. Not even hiding in Mexico. So anyway, I just subscribed with my Apple email address and hope your posts arrive in English. Gotta love that artificial intelligence! I honestly never know how to easily get around it.
Love your posts, and can comment also. Great
Just subscribed.
I wanted to say thank you Wolf your blog is fascinating and insightful. I am glad I found it. You ROCK!!
You’re back now! Thanks Wolf!
Jim
The only kink I have is spending too much time elsewhere debating with the uninformed or worse, misinformed, before coming back to Wolfstreet. Also, I revel in Wolf allowing me to feel anonymous when posting.
Had some small problems but,everything is working fine…
Call me perverse, but I actually find the details of running the guts of Wolfstreet (server issues, ad dynamics, etc.) pretty interesting.
Maybe not once a week interesting but definitely monthly interesting…
You and about 3 other people 🤣
I just use Google like a normal person.
I tried to send an online donation to WS about 2 months ago and my phone number was rejected by PayPal as we use VOIP and not a mobile as mobile does not work in our rural location. Thus, it could not be completed. Tried to submit funds several times that morning and rediscovered why I hate PayPal….. as the only option left to me was a snail mail cheque to WS via a post office run as it was an international destination.
Email issues with business increasingly problematic these days as many large corps (like Best Buy) only offer a voicemail selection option and don’t even provide phone numbers for local stores. In fact, their call centre could not even contact individual stores either by phone or email.
Hope you sort out your tech problems. It must be infuriating to run an online tech operation. Good luck.
Sorry for the troubles you’re having with PayPal. That VOIP is an issue with PayPal when you use your credit card is news to me, but it could be.
Just to make sure: I use PayPal only as a payment platform. You don’t need a PayPal account. But the way PayPal set up the payments page is misleading people into the PayPal trap of setting up a PayPal account. But that’s not needed.
So just to double-make sure:
1. On my donations page…
https://wolfstreet.com/how-to-donate-to-wolf-street/
2. Click the yellow “donate” button, which takes you to my PayPal page
3. fill in the amount
4. click on the WHITE button “Donate with debit or credit card” (not the yellow button), which should take you to the page where you input your credit card data.