Testing Dave-by-email

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
html, javascript
Domain
web-dev

Research direction

Start at http://scripting.com/email/ and follow the sign-in, confirmation, nightly-email, and unsubscribe flows described in the issue; inspect the browser JavaScript console when a problem occurs. No repository file or test is named, so completion is not defined beyond reporting reproducible deviations with expected and actual behavior.

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Description

Now you can receive Scripting News every night via email. It's still in testing and there's a little more development work to do, but it's ready for people to try it out.

How to report problems

Please you have to be good at error reports of the form: 1. I did this, 2. Expected this, but 3. This is what actually happened. Screen shots can be helpful. Also in case of errors, check the JavaScript console in the browser.

Signing up

Go to this page: http://scripting.com/email/.

If you're not logged in to scripting.com via Twitter, you'll see a button that when clicked will log you in. This is a requirement so that we can make unsubscribing easy and reliable.

Then enter your email address and click the Confirm button. An email is sent to that address containing a link. Click on the link to complete your subscription. You should get a confirmation dialog in the browser.

Every night

Just after midnight Eastern, an email is sent to all subscribers containing the posts from scripting.com for the previous day.

There is an Unsubscribe link at the bottom of each email. Other people will not be able to unsub on your behalf if you forward the emails.

It uses the same Twitter-based identity system that Likes currently use, so you don't have to sign on again if you're already signed on that way.

Please report any problems here. Hope you like it! :-)

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