Heads up, folks. It's time to Jet.
No, I'm not referring to the legendary Jet magazine, founded in 1951 by John H. Johnson. That would be cool and interesting and educational in its own right, but I'm afraid I'm talking about something much more mundane.
As we announced back in December, we're moving our "CAT FooD" newsletter to the JetPack platform. That's transition is almost complete. Your receipt of this message indicates success — assuming it came to your email.
Yes, our inboxes are clogged these days, but email remains the best way to stay in touch for certain things. We hope timely info from CAT+FD is one of those things!
We didn't make this change lightly, but it should offer several advantages. For one thing, it gives you more power to customize exactly how often you get your newsletter delivered. Also, it integrates more seamlessly with our publishing platform, WordPress.
What do you have to do? Nothing! If you were subscribed to the old newsletter, we've already added you directly to the new newsletter. In fact, an email version of this post should come directly to your inbox. You should get it twice, actually: once via the new system, instantaneously using JetPack, and once via the old system, overnight using MailChimp. We'll shut the automated MailChimp newsletter down after this one last post. It will be strictly JetPack after that.
Having said all that, there are a couple things you could do to make sure you continue to get the newsletter smoothly.
- The new newsletter comes at you from CAT FooD <donotreply@wordpress.com>, so you could add that address to your contacts, in order to keep it from getting flagged as spam.
- Speaking of which, if you didn't already get this post via email, that may have happened. Please check your spam filters and folders, and if you find the CAT FooD newsletter languishing there, please be sure to mark it as legitimate.
- If you're using the "Focused Inbox" in Outlook, you may find the newsletter in your "Other" tab. And maybe that's just where you want it. I mean, that's entirely up to you. If you'd rather see our newsletter in your "Focused" tab, you can move it by selecting Move > Always move to Focused inbox, so that our future messages land in the Focused tab. Read more about this from Microsoft.
Again, those steps are optional. We envision a smooth transition. The only potentially confusing issue that we foresee might arise if you already subscribe to some other WordPress.com newsletters. That scenarios probably only applies to a handful of subscribers. We're happy to work with you to resolve anything that comes up on a case-by-case basis.