A few updates
Almost a couple of weeks into the new year and the diary, here’s a collection of updates about the site.
Site News: Housekeeping
Supporting this site at Ko-fi
I’ve been running this site for twenty years now (I look so young!) and as we begin the third decade and the third reading I thought I’d try something new – I’ve set up the ability to financially support the site, using Ko-fi.
New daily diary entries email list
As previously mentioned I’ve moved the email list for receiving each day’s diary entry, and you can now subscribe at Buttondown.
A couple of site tweaks
As far as I know, the recent server move has gone smoothly, with nothing (new) broken. I’ve made a couple small changes to the site recently:
We're on a new server
If you’re reading this, then you’re seeing the site on a new server. I think everything is working OK, but if you come across anything that’s unusually broken do email me to let me know.
The end of the second cycle
Thank you all so much for taking part over the past 9 years and 5 months – or however long you’ve been here for!
In-depth Articles tweaks
I’ve made a few tweaks to the In-depth Articles section the first of which is to re-name it simply “Articles”.
A Samuel Pepys Diary API
I’ve just opened up an API for accessing data from the site, something that might be useful to other developers. If you don’t know what an API (application programming interface) is, no need to worry, and you can safely ignore it!
Daily diary emails update
NOTE: The Groups.io list described here was closed at the end of 2022 and replaced by one at Buttondown. See this Site News post for more info.
As mentioned in the previous post, I’ve changed the service used to send each day’s diary entry out by email, which means people need to subscribe to the new service (instructions here). The old service has now been switched off.
Diary entries by email service changing
For years it’s been possible to receive “today’s” diary entry by email through the Feedburner service. That service is ending the email feature and so I’m changing how the emails work.
If you wish to continue receiving diary entries by email you must subscribe to the new group by the end of April 2021. After this emails will not be sent by the existing Feedburner-powered service.