A BROKEN ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME
What’s Wrong With Middling?
I’d like to know
I write at a site called Middling. I’m not sure why they took that name, but it’s a bit ironic in some ways. While Middling is a great place to write and is full of wonderful people, they do some things rather poorly.
For one example, while they have a way for readers to subscribe to your writing and get email notifications, those notifications sometimes mysteriously fail. When Bella G. stops sending notifications to me, I will eventually notice and check her page. Surprise! Bella has written several stories I have not read because I never received any email about them!
I check my Spam folder and my Trash, but Bella is not there. Perhaps I accidentally unsubscribed? Nope. I’m still subscribed. Unsubscribing and re-subscribing usually fixes this.
Though not necessarily for very long.
Any programmer will tell you this isn’t difficult to code. You run through the list of people who want to be notified, find their email server, and send the email. You check for any errors and, depending on what the error is, you might give up, or make yourself a note to try again later. Forgetting to try again later is a mistake a junior programmer might make.
