Update on recent newsletter!

Mortiking Pudding Dirt Cup
I'm sure some of you noticed, we sent out a newsletter for the first time in ages last week. Unfortunately, our email provided did not want to send over 200,000 emails to potentially inactive accounts, and so they've blocked the newsletter, but we'll be able to do some culling of our email list and make it out soon. The problem is that we have tens of thousands of emails from 2004+ that are @aol or @yahoo, that haven't existed in 10+ years. So we're working with our provider to get those out of our email lists!

This created downstream issues with sending things like password request emails (which we explicitly told people they'd need to do in the newsletter), and those are now going out and should be completed in the next hour or so.

While we wait, the redeemable item for the newsletter is the Mortiking Pudding Dirt Cup which we've made into the free gift so that everyone can get a copy, and you'll be able to pick up an extra when you eventually get the newsletter.

Thank you for your patience everyone!
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Posted by SubetaTeam

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Delphi
Is this still a thing that's being worked on? Because I never saw any newsletter at all.
Hollieangel
The free gift system bothers me because life has been hectic lately (deployed husband, kid smashing his tooth in half, being unwell... Just off the top of my head) and I haven't been on in a while but it means I have missed out on this item and did not get the newsletter email. Hopefully that'll come eventually, but then there are users that get it twice just because the email system messed up and you offered it for free on a system that requires people to be online at a certain time.

I'm also interested in how this impacts how you are going through the list and checking which email addresses are active so you can resend the newsletter emails because I still use my AOL email address. I've just come back and still haven't received the email despite it now being 2.5 weeks later.

I'm not particularly bothered by this item in particular, but it did make me think of the points I have made above for other users who are and/or future items and issues.
PoeticArcana
Oop, not me clinging to my @aol email that is like 23 years old and that I still actively use to this day. >_>
FleurdeLumina
my current email is also yahoo and i didn't receive anything either
Asellus
My email on file is correct and I am a dinosaur still using yahoo, but I did not get a newsletter.
Midnightlily
My current e-mail is the right one and I didn’t receive said newsletter. I’m not complaining. I’m just letting you guys know that you may need to update my email in the system or even maybe just re-group with yahoo.
beinagrind
Wow, went looking through my inbox for my last newsletter and found it among 2010 subeta oekaki signups - what a throwback 😭
Tila
I don't get newsletters since 2014.and my email still the same.
YeranceK
Hi, I might be a portion of the problem here. I signed up so long ago that I don't have the same email anymore. I cant get into the one I have on here. I use it to login (Well I'm always logged in so I never use it) Anyways since its part of my login info I didn't know about doing a change of email. I do still want to get the emails you send out for important info. So please if someone could direct me to what I need to do. I don't want to upset my login info though. Thanx
Keith STAFF
We've stopped sending the emails, which is why we've put the item into the free gift. We have to do work to clear out those emails that will bounce, otherwise our provider won't work with us.

It's not a problem if you use yahoo or AOL, or any of those providers. The issue is that we have thousands of 'dead' emails that prevent us from sending out the rest.

We're working on it, and that's why we've made the item the free gift until we can resume sending them out. If you havent' got the email yet, you aren't going to for probably a week or two :)
Keith STAFF
Hi everyone! I'm going to bring up a new panel on Kumos this week so that you can see / change your email! I'm shocked we didn't have that yet lol

Also - it's totally fine if you use gmail or aol or any email provider! What the post is talking about is we sent out thousands of emails to users from 20 years ago - and a lot of those emails bounced because they just don't exist anymore.

That made our provider, who has a legal obligation to ensure that we aren't spamming emails to put a hold on our email sending capabilities, until we could go through and clean out our email list, in terms of users who we suspect the email would bounce from. So we're using another service now (you can see how much these things cost and add up, just to send a newsletter :() to clean out those old rolls.

Thank you for your patience!!
loe_loe
Yeah… Yahoo is still operational. So is aol.
Senti
I haven't gotten an email yet. Would it come from Subeta?
Flame
Heh, my yahoo email is still my main one, lol
-HyperBlossom-
I use Proton Mail and the only thing of Subeta that I see is when I needed to change my password in Kumos. I remember sometime ago you guys ask us to change out passwords and email addresses. Is Proton Mail a no go like Google? Do I need to change my email address again?
skydreamer
I don't know if it was mentioned yet (as there's so many comments now), but I found my message in my spam. I don't know why, as I have emails from subeta dating back years (I don't delete often..). Just thought I would mention.
Baronbaracuda
Thank you for all of your constant, hard work, Keith. (And Staff)
And thank you for the Pudding Cup.
I didnt get any email at all.
jigo
i use yahoo and got the newsletter lmao
Julie
gmail here, no newsletter. Thanks for the free gift.
WARTOOTHrainbow
Just want to chime in and say I also still use my AOL account...
Banana
I still use yahoo! I didn’t get the email though :( I’ll be on the look out!
mournful
@Laurey
thank you for explaining!
Mythology
I switched my email a while ago, I checked my old yahoo email and the last newsletter was from 2019. I didn't receive one to my new email... Will you let us know when you send out the newsletter again?
Laurey
Also, I don't think that staff meant to imply that every yahoo or hotmail, etc. email address is an inactive one, just using those as examples where they are probably seeing a large number coming back as unable to send because they are no longer in use. Subeta has been around for 20 years, I'm sure there are a lot of old email addresses from old accounts of people who don't play anymore that may no longer exist or haven't been checked in years.
Laurey
@mournful @Gastrodon

As far as I'm aware, the Subeta newsletters are not something that we have ever had to actively sign up for. Having a Subeta account with an email listed on your dashboard profile section should be enough, then Subeta (or whatever mass-emailing service they use) will use all of those email addresses saved to people's accounts to compile a mailing list. So there shouldn't be anything you need to do on your end other than make sure the email associated with your account is an active one that you still have access to.

https://subeta.net/preferences.php?act=profile

It seems the issue this time was mainly with Subeta's service provider not wanting to spend the resources to send that many emails to addresses that may not be active anymore. So double-checking the email address you're using for Subeta (in the link above) to make sure it's an active one can help with that.
norfie
Thank you for making the free gift available outside the newsletter! I used to receive the newsletter on my yahoo account, but I have not recieved the newest one yet. (Yes, I still check my yahoo email daily! :P )
kytten
Thanks for the free gift - my email is yahoo and i'm definitely still using it. :P
Saturnine
i still use mine too @mouse lol
mouse
@Brian
completely speculating, but i think it makes sense to want to contact users on the previous newsletter that may not be active anymore/forgot about subeta as a friendly reminder to be like “hey we’re still here! come on by, instead of only having the currently active user base sign back up.
also i may or may not still use my yahoo heh
capper09
Yahoo Account but no e-mail.. where i find here the settings to order again..?
. got the last many years ago..
Bren
No newsletter to my hotmail account but thanks so much for the free gift! 😊
Brian
What is the downside of resetting the newsletter completely and having EVERYONE sign up again? Or having it signup next time we sign in and forcing that to happen??? I don't know how things work.... I'm just saying some stuff really! 🦤
Brian
My roommate still visits Yahoo for news daily and still insists on using that email. I think it's wild, but he apparently he won't change until the pry it from his hands.
char881992
My email still is a yahoo one, the last Subeta newsletter I got was from 2019.
moon12216
I've searched my email using the search feature and nothing with the word subeta was found.. Ive never had a aol or yahoo
EvilRedDuckie
Thanks for the free pudding cup! Luckily, I got the newsletter when it was originally mailed out and have a 2nd one now. :D :heart:
Duanca
Still no mail here yet, No yahoo mail
Avis
Thank you for making the item free! I have an @msn email and didn't get the newsletter. Hopefully, everything gets sorted out. I might be one of the few who miss the newsletters.
-HyperBlossom-
I use Proton Mail and the only thing of Subeta that I see is when I needed to change my password in Kumos. I remember sometime ago you guys ask us to change out passwords and email addresses. Is Proton Mail a no go like Google? Do I need to change my email address again?
lion_magnus
I use gmail but I haven't gotten the newsletter unfortunately :( hope it can all be sorted out!
ROCK
Hey hey hey now. The only reason I HAVE my yahoo mail still is to keep it alive for my subeta account, you shutyourmouth
Merlin
thanks for putting it as a free gift as well!
Beowulf
I have a yahoo account, but I still used it daily. I have it since Im 8.
Noelle
Thankfully I used a gmail account, however, I didn't see a newsletter when I logged into it just now. I'll keep an eye out for one.
tricky
I still use yahoo as my main email service
Ohio
What email address should I expect it to come from?
Bunny20
I have yahoo :( still no email, but I do remember the last one I got, it had some kind of skiing/snow background as the gift.
Gastrodon
This is gonna sound really dumb but I didn't know there was a newsletter. How do I sign up for that? :O
Pretzels
I'm still waiting for email, I have a google account. At any rate, thank you for the free gift =)
Koi
I'm excited to get news letters again. (Haven't received one yet)
mournful
do we need to sign up somewhere to receive the newsletter?
demon
demon
yah~ooooooo~
TheIntrovert
Thank you! I haven't gotten the email yet but will look for it.
Aimee
I got the newsletter. Thank you for the update!
Inknote
i use gmail but didnt get the email
Professah
Hilariously, the email I use for Subeta is an AOL email.
Moonbeam
Just checked and my Gmail is the email listed; no newsletter yet but glad everyone is getting the food item as a freebie. Glad you guys are working on the issue and being super transparent about it. Hope it gets straightened out soon!! And thanks for the gift! ;)
Suriana
I use a yahoo.com email also. I just checked, and I didnt get sent a copy of the news letter.
Faune
It's always an adventure for Subeta isn't it xD
Thank you guys so much for all the hard work, this is such an exciting stage in Subeta's journey <3
Cleometry
My current main (&active) mail is @yahoo........ ó.ò
Life
Oh thank you for the Free Gift! I actually did need it for a TC and I'm really happy to have it :D
I have Gmail and I didn't get it either so idk? Hopefully soon!
jersey
My email is yahoo. Only one I use.
Thank you for the item though since I guess I may never get a newsletter.
Flyingkat
My main on here is also aol and still kicking
Ambition
@Laurey Thank you for the information! ^^
honey_bear
my main email that I have had since 2001 is a yahoo.com one. I had no problems getting the newsletter. Hope everyone that had issues gets everything straightened out soon
Regan
I use Gmail and still never received the email :( but thank you for the free gift!
Laurey
@Ambition (and anyone else who needs)

If you go to your profile section on your Dashboard, it will show you the email address you currently have associated with Subeta. If you need/want to change it to a different one, you can do so on the same page.

https://subeta.net/preferences.php?act=profile
pulse
I have Yahoo emails... but my main email is one from a domain I'm pretty sure doesn't exist. Something older than Hotmail.
emmie1989
Mine has always been a 'live(hotmail)' I never got the newsletter either
Ambition
I have no idea if the email that subeta uses for me i actually have anymore - but I do use yahoo still. How can we check on our email for subeta account? I have lost access to a couple that I created at the dawn of time and just moved away from. lol
Holden
I had the newsletter page bookmarked, in case it ever changed. Here it is for posterity <3 I want to think it was from not long after the Jaxon/Ian plot?
JackyMedan
I haven't gotten the newsletter yet, I just checked and the email address I used on subeta is a hotmail one which I no longer use for NEW accounts, but anything sent there does still end up in my current outlook inbox, so I just never changed it.
Net
Wish I could change the email associated with my account but there are reasons which I don't fully understand to blame for that
demon
yippeeeeeee
AROMA
I'm also still stuck in the past using a yahoo account. A .co.uk yahoo account to boot!
Amber STAFF
@Wolfmyth go for it!
Wolfmyth
Does this mean we can grab an extra cup even if we got the email?
Edgeworth
i assume there's a method to figuring out which emails belong to inactive users? because i also definitely still use an aol address for spam (which if i'm not mistaken is what my subeta is registered with lol)
Trees
Thanks, I was worried I'd never be able to get the item
Amber STAFF
@Reekoh It's more for those people who started with yahoo and then later moved to a different provider and just ... let the yahoo rot away.
Synth
Thank you for figuring out what happened and giving us a link to the item! My gourmand is happy now! :D
Reekoh
But I do use yahoo? So like, it does exist? lol
StarShadow
OK thanks for the notice. Will be looking for the email. Thanks for notification.

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