FeedMail Blog

Owner-paid feeds allow feed publishers to provide FeedMail to their subscribers at no cost. For example the FeedMail Blog is an owner-paid feed. Up until now digest subscriptions were not covered by owner-paid plans. Subscribers could select a digest but they would have to pay for the subscriptions themselves. Digests are now fully supported under owner-paid plans. For users: The owner-paid feeds in your digests no longer count towards the cost of the digest. For publishers: Users will now be able to receive your feed as a digest or included in one of their existing digests. You will be charged one credit for each digest issue containing items from your feed (no matter how many items from your feed are in that issue). Notably this cost will never be more than real-time subscriptions would be.

FeedMail now supports feeds that are paid for by the feed owner. This means that subscribers will not have to pay. For Subscribers As the first owner-paid feed, subscribing to the FeedMail blog is now free for all FeedMail users. If you are subscribed to this blog you should now see an info box at the top of the Subscription Management page indicating that the feed is paid for. Note that this only applies to the main feed. If you are subscribed to a per-category feeds we recommend switching to the main feed and using category filters. For Feed Owners Pricing for feed-owners is the same as regular subscriptions. One credit per notification. They can purchase credits in bulk for the regular bulk discount. Setup is not yet self-service. If you would like to use FeedMail to provide email newsletters and would like to cover the costs for your users please reach out to support with the feed URLs that you would like to cover.

Update : FeedBurner is effectively disabled and no longer supports BrowserFriendly widgets. This post is obsolete but left up for historical reference.

FeedMail has never had a user-configurable update rate option. This is because it never made sense to us. Why would you want anything but the fastest option? Update rate also isn't really a user-facing concern, it is more of an implementation detail. Users don't care how polling works, they just want to get their news. By keeping this decision internal it gives us the flexibility to introduce features such as instant updates via WebSub without requiring users to manually update their feed configuration. We've recently made another improvement by reducing our poll rate limit from 15min to 5min. No action required on your part, your feeds are already updating faster. This means that you will get your updates three times faster for feeds that allow it. We have also adjusted the poll rate we use when feeds don't specify anything from 1h to as low as 5min for fast feeds. The effect of these changes is significant. Excluding WebSub feeds (which are always updated in real-tim...

In July 2021 Google disabled FeedBurner's email notification feature . This was used by many blogs to let their users subscribe by email. It was especially common with Blogger users via the "FollowByEmail widget" which was backed by FeedBurner. There are many alternatives for this widget with different feature sets. FeedMail is one option worth considering. In fact FeedBurner's shutdown was one of the motivating factors for the creation of FeedMail! Our founder wanted to provide email subscriptions to his blog, but all of the available options were expensive, difficult, had ads or were loaded with non-optional tracking links. Pros Multiple cost options: Free for the publisher. Each user that subscribes using FeedMail gets 400 updates free. (Or 1000 if you use a referral code ). This means that if you post weekly your users will be able to subscribe for more than 7 years at no cost. Paid by the publisher. Click here for information on how you can provide your users fre...

If you offer a blog with an RSS feed you can reach more users by offering email subscription as well. FeedMail provides an easy-to-integrate newsletter that has no cost to you. Just select one of the implementation strategies below. Implementation Options Link The easiest option is to provide a link to the subscribe page. First got to the FeedMail New Subscription page. Enter your website's URL and click "Go".  Then copy the URL from your browser's address bar. This the the URL to subscribe to your website! It should look something like https://feedmail.org/subscriptions/new?url= https%3A%2F%2Fyour-site.example . You can then link to that URL from your site. For example if you are using raw HTML in your design it would look something like: <a href="https://feedmail.org/subscriptions/new?url= https%3A%2F%2Fyour-site.example ">Click here to subscribe by email.</a>  Subscribe Button To use a button simply add the following code to your website. ...