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Changes to emails you receive for new video uploads from your subscriptions (August 6, 2020)

ARGH. So that's why I suddenly stopped getting new video notifications from Youtube back in August. Would have been nice if they'd, you know, sent out AN EMAIL NOTIFICATION about that. I'm not sure exactly what they were tracking to claim that "Less than 0.1% of these emails are opened" - like, could they only see usage through the GMail app or on the website, and not when mail was fetched to an email client via POP/IMAP? and does reading the mail in plain text rather than HTML make a difference? - but I relied heavily on it. It was in fact my only way of receiving such notifications; I don't have anything set up to receive push notifications (nor do I want them) and I don't really go look at my Subscriptions, although now I guess I'm going to have to. So this joins the ranks of Google Reader and iGoogle in "dammit Google I was using that" for a service they claim was not being used enough to justify its continued existence. Pfeh.

(Photoshop CC, Filter > Lens Correction)


Um. How about, you know, Kodak?

I suppose they did stop making digital cameras a while back, but that doesn't mean no one has one (*cough* me *cough*). Maybe they didn't agree to provide specifications or something?

(Or maybe it's "no one who can afford Photoshop would be using a Kodak anyway" :P "A new Hasselblad would take better pictures than your present camera"--T. Orland's Compendium of Photographic Truths)

If you're trying to reach my website or me through anything on eristic.net, we are currently experiencing technical problems. I renewed the domain back in August (and their account management area agrees with me that it's paid through Sept 2017) but for some reason, I guess because A Small Orange didn't do something?, I woke up today to find the domain expired. I've submitted a ticket, but I don't know how long it will take to fix. This also means I may not see or respond to journal comments immediately since the notifications go to eristic.net addresses.

ETA ca 8:30 PM: Working again now after starting a live chat to ask why I hadn't received so much as an autoresponse to the ticket I opened at about 11:30 this morning. I know they're just a support peon who has to follow a script, but the fact that their first explanation for why the domain had expired was "you turned off autorenewal" does not fill me with confidence. Yes, yes I did. And so you send me an invoice every year, and I pay it manually, as I did this year, and here's the paid invoice number. No explanation was given for how or why it could still expire under those conditions. I've never before had to take any separate action, like pay and then open a separate ticket to say "go ahead and renew it" or something like that - I just pay the domain renewal, and it works. And it can't be like apparently happened with DeviantArt earlier this year, where I re-upped and then was immediately expired again the next day and was like wtf? and according to them my credit card co. had declined the charge as fraudulent so presto I expired again. I don't know if that was actually true, but definitely not in this case: I saw the posted charge on the statement for the billing cycle I just paid. So. Who knows what happened, or how I could be sure it won't happen next year :-/