A More Positive Perspective

WordPress Method:
You may have pending WordPress subscriptions already, in which case they won’t let you sign up for new stuff until you confirm or delete the pending ones. How to do that?

1. Visit https://subscribe.wordpress.com/.

2. Enter your email address and click Request Details.

3. After requesting your details, you’ll be sent an email with a link in it. WATCH FOR IT! By clicking the link, you’ll be taken to a page where you can manage your subscriptions.

Follow.it Method (Replaces Feedburner Method)
See this post for how to use Follow.it (as a reader or a blogger).

After signing up, be sure to check your email (look in the Spam folder, too), for any email containing follow.it (the sender is probably hi@follow.it). Look for the text:

Please confirm that this is correct and you want to receive this content by clicking here, or decline if you don’t want to receive it.

Be sure to click the part that says “Please confirm…” assuming that you did mean to subscribe. You may wonder, “WHY do I have to click so many @#$% links just to subscribe!?” It’s to keep you safe from malicious people who would try to subscribe you to everything on the Internet and fill up your inbox! (In some places, this double opt-in check is required by law.) You will only have to do this once per feed (mine or anyone else’s).

Newsletter
Visit https://hollyjahangiri.substack.com/ to subscribe. It’s freeeee! And why might you want to get this, too? I write in other places around the web, such as on Medium.com, and sometimes send out updates and links to those. But you don’t have to subscribe, and you won’t hurt my feelings (much) if you don’t.