Anyone else noticing a few hours lag on comment notifications appearing in email? Lots of good discussion about Alexander’s post, but I keep getting notified hours later.
Also, I wanted to see what this “Start a new thread” button does :)
I got a mail notice at 14:53 Central European Standard Time. A web version of this said it was from 'Doctor Hammer 36 min ago', but I was logged in the whole time, and this is when messages showed up in my mailbox. So I posted this immediately. See how long it takes you to get it.
Good, not just me then, even if the lag was lesser.
My Substack sends messages to my gmail account. Do you use that, or a proton mail? Is gmail grinding longer deciding if it wants to let Substack emails through, I wonder? (I notice my posts seem to hit my email box immediately, so I am doubtful.)
Has Substack noticed that Rollins takes 20 minutes to finish re-re-re-editing his comments, and extrapolated that to everyone and instituted a time delay?
More data. I just subscribed to a new substack, and as usual got the chance to subscribe for free to 4 substacks that the first person is reading. I always do this, and then periodically go back and unsubscribe from the ones that aren't producing any content. I also cull the ones that are very nicely producing output, but about something I am not interested in, and the odd one that is produced by somebody I think is a complete waste of time. If the content gets to be enough, I consider moving to paid. This is how I ended up here, by the way. (And still a freeloader, but trending in the 'you should pay for this' direction). :)
At any rate, all those 'welcome to the X substack' posts showed up, immediately, no time delay in my mailbox. Your theory that it is things that might be edited that are delayed is growing legs. :)
Checking the time stamps, these two comments hit my mail at about the same time, and one from Rollins a little bit ago in a different thread hit immediately (I happened to look at the email right as it came in). That's making me think Substack was just super laggy a day or so ago. Maybe they were doing a system update or something. I have been too busy to check carefully this morning, but so far it seems that things are coming in rapidly.
Interesting on the subscription thing, by the way. I am curious as to most people's preferences for finding new things to read, partially because I don't want to use Twitter to advertise, but that seems how people mostly get word out. I don't want to miss stuff, and I like having a chatty audience :)
Also, yay Sweden! My advisor's family is there (he splits time between the US and Sweden) and I hope to visit within a few years when the littlest sprog is old enough to deal with a long flight.
I got a mail notice at 14:53 Central European Standard Time. A web version of this said it was from 'Doctor Hammer 36 min ago', but I was logged in the whole time, and this is when messages showed up in my mailbox. So I posted this immediately. See how long it takes you to get it.
Good, not just me then, even if the lag was lesser.
My Substack sends messages to my gmail account. Do you use that, or a proton mail? Is gmail grinding longer deciding if it wants to let Substack emails through, I wonder? (I notice my posts seem to hit my email box immediately, so I am doubtful.)
Has Substack noticed that Rollins takes 20 minutes to finish re-re-re-editing his comments, and extrapolated that to everyone and instituted a time delay?
Neither. I run my own mail server. I am in Sweden but the server is in Germany, hosted by Hetzner. https://www.hetzner.com/
More data. I just subscribed to a new substack, and as usual got the chance to subscribe for free to 4 substacks that the first person is reading. I always do this, and then periodically go back and unsubscribe from the ones that aren't producing any content. I also cull the ones that are very nicely producing output, but about something I am not interested in, and the odd one that is produced by somebody I think is a complete waste of time. If the content gets to be enough, I consider moving to paid. This is how I ended up here, by the way. (And still a freeloader, but trending in the 'you should pay for this' direction). :)
At any rate, all those 'welcome to the X substack' posts showed up, immediately, no time delay in my mailbox. Your theory that it is things that might be edited that are delayed is growing legs. :)
Glad you are enjoying your time here!
Checking the time stamps, these two comments hit my mail at about the same time, and one from Rollins a little bit ago in a different thread hit immediately (I happened to look at the email right as it came in). That's making me think Substack was just super laggy a day or so ago. Maybe they were doing a system update or something. I have been too busy to check carefully this morning, but so far it seems that things are coming in rapidly.
Interesting on the subscription thing, by the way. I am curious as to most people's preferences for finding new things to read, partially because I don't want to use Twitter to advertise, but that seems how people mostly get word out. I don't want to miss stuff, and I like having a chatty audience :)
Also, yay Sweden! My advisor's family is there (he splits time between the US and Sweden) and I hope to visit within a few years when the littlest sprog is old enough to deal with a long flight.
If the West Coast of Sweden is on the agenda, come visit!
I will keep that in mind! His spare place is in (or near) Stockholm, but there's a lot of good stuff to see in Sweden all over it seems.
I didn't notice this particular lag, but Substack was intermittently glitchy for me over the past few weeks.