Our free Email News Service is back after a 4 month pause.
So what happened?
Between September 2014 and July 2022, Google's Feedburner subscription service delivered almost 1900 of our Notice Board Page posts to our subscribers' Email inboxes on the same day we posted them.
But as with many online services, things change, and in April 2021, Google notified us, along with 1000's of other users worldwide, that they would be ending their Feedburner service - Great 😞
Feedburner continued to work as expected for a long while after this but soon became erratic before it finally stopped delivering our Emails in July this year.
We began searching for an alternative service, but it is only now we have found one that appears reliable, easy for subscribers to use, and works as we would like.
follow.it
follow.it is a free, simple to use and popular subscription service that notifies our subscribers by Email when we publish a new post to our Notice Board Page.
We recently set up follow.it to work with Upchurch Matters and have been testing it for reliability and getting used to how it works.
Just as Feedburner did before, it will deliver our posts to your Email inbox in a single and convenient daily Email.
Whether you were a previous subscriber or would like to sign up to receive our Emails for the first time, the process is still simple. Once you have subscribed, it is always automatic, and as a subscriber, you can now choose your preferred Email delivery options.
Subscribe to Upchurch Matters via Email
follow.it gives you easy to follow instructions during each step of the short process, but in case you get stuck, we have put together our simple 3 step guide below:
1.
Look for the box on the right hand side of the Notice Board Page that reads: 'Subscribe to Email News Service' 👉🏼
Enter your Email address and click the 'Subscribe' button.
A new web browser window will open that reads:
'Please confirm your subscription by clicking on the link we sent you.'
2.
Go to your Email inbox, where you should see a new Email from follow.it.
If you cannot see the Email, please check your Junk/Spam folder.
The Email reads: 'Please activate your subscription to feed "Notice Board | News From Upchurch Matters" by clicking the button below.'
The Email also contains a username and password for use on the follow.it website later.
Click on the big green button in the Email that reads: 'Click here to confirm'. A new web browser window should open, displaying the follow.it website.
3.
To manage your follow.it subscription, please log in using the username and password you received in the Email at: https://follow.it, where under 'Settings', you can choose your preferred Email delivery options.
To receive our news posts in a single and convenient daily Email, you need to tick the 'News Page' and 'Single Emails' boxes and from the dropdown menu, choose 'The Entire Stories'. Remember to set the time zone to 'London' and the language to 'English'.
We have chosen '8:00pm' as our delivery time, and there are other settings you can alter too.
And that's it! - You are now subscribed to our free Email News Service 😀
We know from real-life conversations that many regular visitors to Upchurch Matters are not on social media and instead choose to visit our website for trusted local news online.
For those followers and anyone else interested in subscribing, we are pleased to have reinstated this free service.
Please Note: Even if you previously subscribed to Upchurch Matters through Feedburner, you will need to subscribe again - Others already have!
Thank you
Upchurch Matters
